Medieval Philosophy in Croatian Catholic Periodical Literature from 1910 to 2012

Abstract

The Middle Ages – thus labelled by the humanists –- encompass an epoch of almost a thousand years. This period has produced brilliant thinkers who through their summae consolidated the best achievements of antique speculation into a logical unity and thus laid the foundations of and expounded Christian truths. This so-called scholastic system had fallen into oblivion until the end of the 19th century, when Pope Leo XIII endeavoured to renew it again based notably on the tenets of Thomas Aquinas. Thus in the 20th century an interest in medieval philosophy quickened throughout Europe. This philosophy will never occupy the same place in Croatia as it occupies in Europe and the world, where there exist university departments and institutes of medieval philosophy. Yet it was cultivated in Croatia and is still cultivated at Catholic colleges and in their periodical literature. The aim of this article is to research the presence of medieval thought and its authors in Croatian journals established in the 20th century, and these are Bogoslovska smotra [Theological Review], Život – Obnovljeni život [Life – Renewed Life], Nova revija [The New Survey], Crkva u svijetu [The Church in the World] and Disputatio philosophica.