Abstract
HISTORY SOMETIMES CREDITS Pope Leo XIII, whose pontificate extended from 1878 to 1903, with inaugurating a neo-Scholastic revival among Roman Catholics that lasted essentially until the Second Vatican Council. On one level, there is good reason for making such a claim. After all, Leo's encyclical Aeterni Patris (1879) commends Thomism as the apex of Christian learning. In his encyclical Leo entreats the leaders of the Church to "restore the golden wisdom of St. Thomas, and . . . to spread it far and wide for the defense and beauty of the Catholic faith, for the good of society, and for the advantage of the sciences." 1 Certainly thereafter, partly due to Leo's own efforts through the Roman College, Scholasticism became the officially sanctioned method in Catholic theology in universities throughout Europe and America. 2
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