The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thomist \Tho"mist\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.
Usage examples of "thomist".
So the Thomist was free to be an Aristotelian, instead of being bound to be an Augustinian.
Scotist, Thomist, Realist, Nominalist, Papist, Calvinist, Molinist, Jansenist, are only pseudonyms.
No Thomist will complain, if Thomism is the end of our philosophy, in the sense in which God is the end of our existence.
Development is always the resultant of two factors, the one the thing itself, the other some external force co-operating with it, exciting it, and aiding it to act. Hence the praemotio physica of the Thomists, and the praevenient and adjuvant grace of the theologians, without which no one can begin the Christian life, and which must needs be supernatural when the end is supernatural.
Hence the praemotio physica of the Thomists, and the praevenient and adjuvant grace of the theologians, without which no one can begin the Christian life, and which must needs be supernatural when the end is supernatural.