List of Catholic philosophers and theologians
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This is a list of philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism was important to their work.
Medieval and Renaissance
- Adelard of Bath
- Albertus Magnus
- Albert of Saxony
- Alexander of Hales
- Augustine of Hippo
- Francis of Assisi
- Thomas Aquinas
- Bonaventure
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Peter Faber
- Jean Gerson
- Giles of Rome
- Godfrey of Fontaines
- Robert Grosseteste
- Henry of Ghent
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Peter Lombard
- Ramon Llull
- John Mair
- Sylvester Mazzolini
- Luis Molina
- Thomas More
- Franciscus Patricius
- Péter Pázmány
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Radbertus
- Matthias Tanner
- Duns Scotus
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Michael Wadding
- William of Alnwick
- William of Ockham
- William of Ware
Enlightenment and Nineteenth century
- Noel Alexandre; Jansenism leaning
- Franz Xaver von Baader
- Jaime Balmes
- Franz Jakob Clemens
- Maurice De Wulf
- John Dobree Dalgairns
- René Descartes
- Augusta Theodosia Drane
- Félix Dupanloup
- Frederick William Faber
- Febronius; pseudonym of Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
- Charles Émile Freppel
- Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica
- Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry
- Anton Günther
- Izidor Guzmics
- Karl Josef von Hefele
- Joseph Hergenröther
- Georg Hermes
- Caspar Isenkrahe
- Joseph Kleutgen
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
- Nicholas-Joseph Laforêt
- Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais
- Alphonsus Liguori
- Joseph de Maistre
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Blaise Pascal; technically a Jansenist, which had been condemned but not declared heretical in his lifetime by Pope Alexander VII
- Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
- John Henry Newman
- Léon Ollé-Laprune
- Henry Nutcombe Oxenham
- Giuseppe Pecci
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
- Giovanni Battista Scaramelli
- Constantine von Schäzler
- Franz Anton Staudenmaier
- Albert Stöckl
- Luigi Taparelli
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Louis Veuillot
- Giambattista Vico
- Nicholas Wiseman
- Austin Woodbury
- Francesco Antonio Zaccaria
- Tommaso Maria Zigliara
- Patrick Benedict Zimmer
Twentieth century and today
- Mortimer Jerome Adler; converted to Catholicism in 2000
- Mariano Artigas
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Tadeusz Bartoś
- Mauricio Beuchot
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Henri Brémond
- Jay Budziszewski
- Christopher Butler
- Hélder Câmara
- Michel de Certeau
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- G. K. Chesterton; started writing in the twentieth century
- Frederick Copleston
- John Downey
- Henri de Lubac
- Henry Denifle
- Peter Dens
- Miguel A. De La Torre
- Craig DePaulo; Augustinian Phenomenologist
- Michael Dummett
- Louis Dupre
- Jacques Dupuis
- Ignacio Ellacuría
- Cornelio Fabro
- John Finnis
- Daniel Garguillio
- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
- Peter Geach
- Robert P. George
- Étienne Gilson
- René Girard
- Germain Grisez
- Vekoslav Grmič
- Romano Guardini
- Jean Guitton
- John Hardon
- Martin Heidegger
- Michal Heller
- Alice von Hildebrand
- Ivan Illich
- Bernard Philip Kelly
- Milan Komar
- Charles de Koninck
- Peter Kreeft
- Catherine LaCugna
- Osvaldo Lira
- Bernard Lonergan
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Gabriel Marcel
- Jacques Maritain
- Ralph McInerny
- Thomas Merton
- Vincent Miceli
- Thomas Molnar
- Emmanuel Mounier
- John Courtney Murray
- Richard John Neuhaus
- Aidan Nichols
- Henri Nouwen
- Walter J. Ong
- Colin O'Sullivan
- Josef Pieper
- Karl Rahner
- Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
- Martin Rhonheimer
- Jacek Salij
- Michael Scanlan
- Max Scheler
- Angelo Scola
- Wilfrid Sellars
- Antonin Sertillanges
- Yves Simon
- Robert Spaemann
- Michael Kheirabi, PHD
- Edith Stein
- Charles Taylor
- František Tomášek
- Joseph de Torre
- David Tracy
- Karel Vladimir Truhlar
- Aleš Ušeničnik
- Jean-Luc Marion
- Richard Rosengarten; philosopher and Dean of University of Chicago Div. School
- John C. Cavadini; specialization in Patristics-Augustine of Notre Dame[1]
- Cyril O'Regan; modern philosophy/theology of Notre Dame
- Edward Joe Holland
- Jean Vanier
- Bas van Fraassen
- Gianni Vattimo
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning
- Bernie Ward
- Thomas Weinandy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II)
- Hector Zagal