信仰危机与托马斯主义

Thomism and the Catholic Crisis of Faith

托马斯主义的独特价值在于,每当天主教遭遇信仰危机时,教会当局就会隆重推出托马斯主义,在近现代,托马斯主义就经历了两次复兴。托马斯主义是一个调和理性与信仰的综合体系,当信仰尚能涵盖理性的张力时,这个体系就能够发挥一定的作用。但是,在现代世界科学理性主义大肆张扬的时代,信仰已被压缩到私人的范围,它已经很难涵盖理性提出的问题。因而,托马斯主义也就走到了尽头。

Thomism played a unique role that whenever a crisis of faith suffered,the Catholic Church recommended Thomism proudly,so that it went through two revivals in modern times.Thomism is a system to reconcile reason and faith,when faith can still cover the tension of reason,this system will still play a role.However,since scientific rationalism thrived in the modern times and the faith was compressed into a private sphere,it has been difficult to cover rational questions.Thus,the Thomism comes to an end.