Talk:List of Catholic philosophers and theologians

message: I tried not to repeat much from the article on Doctors of the Church. When it came to those from before 787 I made sure to only choose those from the Western Roman Empire or the Western part of it anyway to avoid picking one whose strongly claimed as Eastern Orthodox.(Although some overlap still might exist)--T. Anthony 11:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
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message: I have subdivided the page considerably so that it is now divided between ancient, early medieval, late medieval, early modern, late modern, and contemporary. The previous division between medieval, modern, and contemporary led to the awkward consequence that theologians a whole millennia apart (!) were in the same era. Augustine and other church fathers are not medieval theologians, but ancient ones. The list now reflects this.
I have also begun (but not finished) reordering names within the sections themselves. Names should be ordered by date of birth. This is important to give a rough sense of influence between thinkers. It is also consistent with other list pages such as List of political philosophers.
Polsky215 (talk) 20:34, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
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message: Though Wittgenstein did receive Last Rites before his death, this was not his own request, and right until the end he would have refused to self-identify as a Catholic. Though I don't think this immediately disqualifies him from appearing on this list, I think he probably shouldn't be on it. 4.243.98.91 22:56, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone must have added that after I left, good call.--T. Anthony 01:24, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Wittgenstein was born Jewish and did not self-identify as a Catholic.  In my understanding, there is nothing in his philosophical works that is even remotely Catholic.  so why is he on this list?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pilgrim144 (talk • contribs) 17:09, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Will remove him.KD Tries Again (talk) 21:34, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but did Wittgenstein identify as Jewish either? I don't see that he did. He was baptized a Catholic and educated as a Catholic. And there is plenty of evidence in his personal life of him practicing what might be called Franciscan virtues. He's just another thinker who started out Catholic and diverged from that later. None of this detracts from us having him identified as Jewish, also. Including him on a list of Catholic philosophers does not impugn his ethnicity. Catholic is not an ethnic thing. Pascalulu88 (talk) 13:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wittgenstein's Catholicism 

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message: I think it would enhance the article to put in some images of some of these folks--71.50.7.162 (talk) 06:44, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs More Images 

message: Nothing in the Wiki article on Joan Chittister indicates that she is a philosopher or theologian, unless commenting on religious matters makes one a philosopher or theologian, which I don't think it does.  --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 19:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joan Chittister? 

message: I think it would be more useful to have separate lists of Catholic philosophers and Catholic theologians (even if there is overlap).  --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 19:28, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  useful distinction