List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
This is a list of Catholic philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism is important to their works. The names are ordered by date of birth in order to give a rough sense of influence between thinkers.
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Ancient (born before 500 AD)
    
- Ignatius of Antioch (c. 35/50 – between 98 and 110)
 - Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60 – c. 163)
 - Polycarp of Smyrna (c. 69 – c. 155)
 - Justin Martyr (100–165)
 - Irenaeus (130–202)
 - Clement of Rome (died 99)
 - Clement of Alexandria (150–215)
 - Tertullian (155–222)
 - Origen of Alexandria (184–253)
 - Cyprian of Carthage (200–258)
 - Aphrahat (270–345)
 - Athanasius of Alexandria (296–373)
 - Hillary of Poitiers (300–368)
 - Ephrem the Syrian (306–373)
 - Basil of Caesarea (329–379)
 - Gregory Nazianzus (329–390)
 - Gregory of Nyssa (335–395)
 - Ambrose (340–397)
 - Jerome (347–420)
 - John Chrysostom (347–407)
 - Augustine of Hippo (354–430)
 - Cyril of Alexandria (378–444)
 - Isaac of Antioch (451–452)
 - Boethius (477–524)
 
Early Medieval (born between 500 AD and 1100 AD)
    

Anselm
- Pope Gregory I (540-604)
 - Isadore of Seville (560-636)
 - Maximus the Confessor (580-662)
 - Bede (672/3-735)
 - John of Damascus (675/6-749)
 - Radbertus (785-865)
 - John Scotus Eriugena (800-877)
 - Anselm of Canterbury (1033/4-1109)
 - Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
 - Adelard of Bath (1080-1152)
 - Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
 - Hugh of Saint Victor (1096-1141)
 - Peter Lombard (1096-1160)
 - Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
 - Héloïse (1100/1-1163/4)
 
High Medieval (born between 1100 AD and 1450 AD)
    

Thomas Aquinas
- John of Salisbury (c. 1110-1180)
 - Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253)
 - Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226)
 - Alexander of Hales (1185-1245)
 - Albertus Magnus (1193-1280)
 - Henry of Ghent (1217-1293)
 - Roger Bacon (1219/20-1292)
 - Bonaventure (1221-1274)
 - Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
 - Ramon Llull (1232-1315)
 - Giles of Rome (1243-1316)
 - Godfrey of Fontaines (1250-1306/9)
 - James of Viterbo (1255-1307)
 - Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1302)
 - Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
 - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
 - John Duns Scotus (1266-1308)
 - William of Alnwick (1275-1333)
 - William of Ockham (1287-1347)
 - William of Ware (1290-1305)
 - Henry Suso (1295-1366)
 - Jean Buridan (1300-1358/61)
 - Bridget of Sweden (1303-1373)
 - Albert of Saxony (1320-1390)
 - Nicole Oresme (1325-1382)
 - Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
 - Jean Gerson (1363-1429)
 - John Capreolus (1380-1444)
 - Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
 
Renaissance and Early Modern (born between 1450 AD and 1750 AD)
    

Erasmus

René Descartes
- Sylvester Mazzolini (1456/7-1527)
 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
 - Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
 - John Mair (1467-1550)
 - Thomas Cajetan (1469-1534)
 - Francesco Silvestri (1474-1528)
 - Thomas More (1478-1535)
 - John Fisher (1469-1535)
 - Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
 - Francisco de Vitoria (1483-1546)
 - Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)
 - Peter Faber (1506-1546)
 - Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)
 - Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
 - Domingo Báñez (1528-1604)
 - Franciscus Patricius (1529-1597)
 - Luis de Molina (1535-1600)
 - John of the Cross (1542-1591)
 - Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)
 - Justus Lipsius (1547-1606)
 - Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)
 - Lawrence of Brindisi (1559-1619)
 - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
 - Péter Pázmány (1570-1637)
 - John of St. Thomas (John Poinsot) (1589-1644)
 - Michael Wadding (1591-1644)
 - René Descartes (1596-1650)
 - Matthias Tanner (1630-1692)
 - Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
 - Noel Alexandre (1639-1724)
 - Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)
 - Giovanni Battista Scaramelli (1687-1752)
 - Peter Dens (1690-1775)
 - Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
 - Febronius (Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim) (1701-1790)
 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria (1714-1795)
 
Late Modern (born between 1750 AD and 1900 AD)
    

Portrait of Newman by John Everett Millais, 1881

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Stein in 1938 or 1939
- Patrick Benedict Zimmer (1752-1820)
 - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
 - Franz Xaver von Baader (1765-1841)
 - Georg Hermes (1775-1831)
 - Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854)
 - Anton Günther(1783-1863)
 - Izidor Guzmics (1786-1839)
 - Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica (1792-1861)
 - Luigi Taparelli (1793-1862)
 - Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797-1855)
 - Francis Xavier Patrizi (1797-1881)
 - Franz Anton Staudenmaier (1800-1856)
 - John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
 - Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865)
 - Félix Dupanloup (1802-1878)
 - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802-1861)
 - Orestes Brownson (1803-1876)
 - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
 - Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (1805-1872)
 - Giuseppe Pecci (1807-1890)
 - Karl Josef von Hefele (1809-1893)
 - Jaime Balmes (1810-1848)
 - Pope Leo XIII (Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) (1810-1903)
 - Joseph Kleutgen (1811-1883)
 - Louis Veuillot (1813-1883)
 - Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
 - Franz Jakob Clemens (1815-1862)
 - Valentin Gröne (1817–1882)
 - John Dobree Dalgairns (1818-1876)
 - Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
 - Augusta Theodosia Drane (1823-1894)
 - Nicholas-Joseph Laforêt (1823-1872)
 - Albert Stöckl (1823-1895)
 - Joseph Hergenröther (1824-1890)
 - Charles Émile Freppel (1827-1891)
 - Constantine von Schäzler (1827-1880)
 - Ernest Hello (1828-1885)
 - Henry Nutcombe Oxenham (1829-1888)
 - Tommaso Maria Zigliara (1833-1893)
 - Franz Brentano (1838-1917)
 - Léon Ollé-Laprune (1839-1898)
 - Caspar Isenkrahe (1844-1921)
 - Henry Denifle (1844-1905)
 - Aloisio Galea (1851-1905)
 - Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856-1912)
 - Maurice Blondel (1861-1949)
 - Antonin Sertillanges (1863-1948)
 - Henri Brémond (1865-1933)
 - Maurice De Wulf (1867-1947)
 - Paul Claudel (1868-1955)
 - Aleš Ušeničnik (1868-1952)
 - Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
 - Charles Peguy (1873-1914)
 - G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 - Max Scheler (1874-1928)
 - Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964)
 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)
 - Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
 - Rudolf Allers (1883-1963)
 - Étienne Gilson (1884-1978)
 - Romano Guardini (1885-1968)
 - Ronald Knox (1888-1957)
 - Christopher Dawson (1889-1970)
 - Erich Przywara (1889-1972)
 - Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973)
 - Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
 - Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977)
 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890-1991)
 - Charles Journet (1891-1975)
 - Edith Stein (1891-1942)
 - Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
 - Henri de Lubac (1896-1991)
 - Xavier Zubiri (1898-1983)
 - Austin Woodbury (1899-1979)
 - František Tomášek (1899-1992)
 
Twentieth and Twenty-first Century
    

Mortimer J. Adler

Joseph Ratzinger

Alasdair MacIntyre in 2009
- Heinrich Schlier (1900-1978)
 - Jean Guitton (1901-1999)
 - Mortimer Jerome Adler, converted to Catholicism in 2000 (1902-2001)
 - Christopher Butler (1902-1986)
 - Józef Maria Bocheński (1902-1995)
 - Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
 - Yves Simon (1903-1961)
 - Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
 - Graham Greene (1904-1991)
 - Josef Pieper (1904-1997)
 - John Courtney Murray (1904-1967)
 - Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
 - Yves Congar (1904-1995)
 - Osvaldo Lira (1904-1996)
 - Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984)
 - Jean Danielou (1905-1974)
 - Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950)
 - Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
 - Charles De Koninck (1906-1965)
 - Frederick Copleston (1907-1994)
 - Bernard Philip Kelly (1907-1958)
 - Bernard O'Brien (1907-1982)
 - Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
 - Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (1908-1995)
 - Hélder Câmara (1909-1999)
 - Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989)
 - Cornelio Fabro (1911-1995)
 - Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980)
 - E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977)
 - Anna Terruwe (1911-2004)
 - George Duggan (1912-2012)
 - Karel Vladimir Truhlar (1912-1977)
 - Walter J. Ong (1912-2003)
 - Louis Bouyer (1913-2004)
 - Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994)
 - R. C. Zaehner (1913-1974)
 - Edward Schillebeeckx (1914-2009)
 - John Hardon (1914-2000)
 - Thomas Berry (1914-2009)
 - W. Norris Clarke (1915-2008)
 - Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
 - Vincent Miceli (1915-1991)
 - Peter Geach (1916-2013)
 - Walker Percy (1916-1990)
 - Avery Dulles (1918-2008)
 - G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001)
 - Conrad Baars (1919-1981)
 - Emerich Coreth (1919-2006)
 - Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II) (1920-2005)
 - Joseph Fitzmyer (1920-2016)
 - Catharina Halkes (1920-2011)
 - Milan Komar (1921-2006)
 - Thomas Molnar (1921-2010)
 - Xavier Tilliette (1921-2018)
 - Leslie Dewart (1922-2009)
 - Jean Delumeau (1923-2020)
 - Jacques Dupuis (1923-2004)
 - Ernest Fortin (1923-2002)
 - Vekoslav Grmič (1923-2005)
 - René Girard (1923-2015)
 - Gregory Baum (1923-2017)
 - Alice von Hildebrand (1923-2022)
 - Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)
 - Michael Dummett (1925-2011)
 - Louis Dupre (1925-2022)
 - Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)
 - Servais Pinckaers (1925-2008)
 - Juan Luis Segundo (1925-1996)
 - Ivan Illich (1926-2002)
 - Robert Bork (1927-2012)
 - Robert Spaemann (1927-2018)
 - Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (1927-2022)
 - Raymond E. Brown (1928-1998)
 - Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928-)
 - Hans Kung (1928-2021)
 - William E. May (1928-2014)
 - Jean Vanier (1928-2019)
 - Nicholas Rescher (1928-)
 - James V. Schall (1928-2019)
 - Ralph McInerny (1929-2010)
 - Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-)
 - Germain Grisez (1929-2018)
 - Ignacio Ellacuría (1930-1989)
 - Joseph A. Bracken (1930-)
 - C. J. F. Williams (1930-1997)
 - Charles Taylor (1931-)
 - Fergus Kerr (1931-)
 - Ferdinand Ulrich (1931-2020)
 - Joseph de Torre (1932-2018)
 - Henri Nouwen (1932-1996)
 - Walter Kasper (1933-)
 - Joan Chittister (1936-)
 - Michal Heller (1936-)
 - John Rist (1936-)
 - Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009)
 - Antonin Scalia (1936-2016)
 - Peter Kreeft (1937-)
 - Leonardo Boff (1938-)
 - Jon Sobrino (1938-)
 - Mariano Artigas (1938-2006)
 - Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1938-)
 - David Tracy (1939-)
 - Joseph A. Komonchak (1939-)
 - John Finnis (1940-)
 - Bas van Fraassen (1941-)
 - Angelo Scola (1941-)
 - Elizabeth A. Johnson (1941-)
 - John P. Meier (1942-)
 - Jacek Salij (1942-)
 - Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (1943-2012)
 - Jean-Luc Marion (1946-)
 - Thomas Weinandy (1946-)
 - Chantal Delsol (1947-)
 - Olavo de Carvalho (1947-2022)
 - Eleonore Stump (1947-)
 - Mary Shawn Copeland (1947-)
 - Tomáš Halík (1948-)
 - Aidan Nichols (1948-)
 - Martin Rhonheimer (1950-)
 - William Desmond (1951-)
 - Jay Budziszewski (1952-)
 - Cyril O'Regan (1952-)
 - Catherine LaCugna (1952-1997)
 - John Joseph Haldane (1954-)
 - Tina Beattie (1955-)
 - Robert P. George (1955-)
 - William Sweet (1955-)
 - Marie-Jo Thiel ((1957-)
 - Gavin D'Costa (1958-)
 - Robert Barron (1959-)
 - Byung-Chul Han (1959-)
 - Yves-Marie Adeline (1960-)
 - David Oderberg (1963-)
 - Helen Alford (1964-)
 - Hector Zagal (1966-)
 - Józef Stala (1966-)
 - Denis Moreau (1967-)
 - Edward Feser (1968-)
 - Ulrich L. Lehner (1976-)
 
References
    
- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8
 - Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Second Edition). Martin Gale; 2006. ISBN 0-02-865780-2
 - The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press; 1995. ISBN 0-19-866132-0
 - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge; 1998. ISBN 978-0-415-07310-3
 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. January 16, 2010
 
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