Saint Thomas Aquinas Danielou the “heroic-elegaic” of man versus

the “heroic-elegaic” of man versus monsters

by Marie-Étienne Vayssière

The Water and the Fire is a sober acknowledgment that all things pass away and staunchly hopeful avowal that truth forever endures

By Joseph Clifford Fenton

at which Fisher serves as Executive Director

Saint Thomas Aquinas Danielou the “heroic-elegaic” of man versusBy Gerald Vann, O. P. In the year 1879, Pope Leo XIII formally inaugurated the modern revival of Thomistic thought. Some sixty years later, this revival had yielded great fruit in Catholic circles. In secular circles, however, its insights had been largely ignored or misunderstood, and the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics taken instead as folly. This misapprehension, argues Gerald Vann, O. P., was the result of tragic misconception of