Raimondo Spiazzi

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Raimondo Spiazzi

• Founder of the Faculty
• of Social Sciences
• at the Angelicum

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Dominic Thomas

• Genoa 1918-2002
• Rome for Angelicum doctorate 1949-
• In St Dominic he found the truth of a life, a
  reflection on the experience of discipleship
• In Aquinas he found a model and powerful thinker
  popular biography of him 1974

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Faculty of Social Sciences

• Asked to plan a centre for social studies for
  post-war Angelicum
• Nominated director by Master of the Order
• Institute of Social Sciences
• approved 1951
• began operating 1952
• power to confer academic degrees 1955

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A Prolific Writer

• Over 150 books, 2500 publications, editor of
• Aquinas complete works in Italian
• Enciclopedia Mariana Theotòcos
• Modern Encylopedia of Christianity
• The Perfecting Character of the Supernatural
  According to St Thomas Aquinas (1953)
• Politics Morals (1967)
• Social Documents of the Church from Pius IX to
  John Paul II (1991)
• Christian Social Ethics (1990)

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Methodology

• A teaching apostle who sowed his work
  everywhere like the Good Sower
• not innovator, but intense work for dialogue of
  Christian secular values
• ready to answer questions from anyone
• eye for information from everywhere, to explain
  teaching in practice
• Encyclopedia of Christian Social Thought (1992),
  explained his methodology
• synthesis of a body of learning in history, its
  political application

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Grace perfects Nature

• Aquinas showed that in Christianity, nature is
  perfected by grace, by the God who became human
• Christ has not just made us Christians, but
  human beings (A Weiss)
• A Christian Humanism, more than Maritains
  theocentric humanism
• With grace, the divine element possesses the
  human creature, neither negating nor deforming,
  but transferring it to a higher dimension this
  is a real and true transfiguration only Jesus
  Christ can fully reveal humanity to human beings
  and only the Church is truly an expert in
  humanity

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