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.
Ancient (born before 500 A.D.)
- Ignatius of Antioch
- Papias of Hierapolis
- Polycarp of Smyrna
- Justin Martyr
- Irenaeus
- Clement of Rome
- Clement of Alexandria
- Tertullian
- Origen of Alexandria
- Cyprian of Carthage
- Aphrahat
- Athanasius of Alexandria
- Hillary of Poitiers
- Ephrem the Syrian
- Basil of Caesarea
- Gregory Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nyssa
- Ambrose
- Jerome
- John Chrysostom
- Augustine of Hippo
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Isaac of Antioch
- Boethius
Early Medieval (born between 500 A.D and 1100 A.D)
- Pope Gregory I
- Isadore of Seville
- Maximus the Confessor
- Bede
- John of Damascus
- Radbertus
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Abelard
- Adelard of Bath
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Peter Lombard
- Hildegard of Bingen
High Medieval (born between 1100 A.D and 1450 A.D)
- Robert Grosseteste
- Francis of Assisi
- Alexander of Hales
- Albertus Magnus
- Henry of Ghent
- Roger Bacon
- Bonaventure
- Thomas Aquinas
- Ramon Llull
- Giles of Rome
- Godfrey of Fontaines
- James of Viterbo
- Gertrude of Helfta
- Meister Eckhart
- Dante Alighieri
- John Duns Scotus
- William of Alnwick
- William of Ockham
- William of Ware
- Henry Suso
- Jean Buridan
- Bridget of Sweden
- Albert of Saxony
- Nicole Oresme
- Catherine of Siena
- Jean Gerson
- John Capreolus
- Nicholas of Cusa
Renaissance and Early Modern (born between 1450 A.D and 1750 A.D)
- Sylvester Mazzolini
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Desiderius Erasmus
- John Mair
- Thomas Cajetan
- Francesco Silvestri
- Thomas More
- Francisco de Vitoria
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Peter Faber
- Teresa of Ávila
- Domingo Báñez
- Franciscus Patricius
- Luis de Molina
- John of the Cross
- Robert Bellarmine
- Justus Lipsius
- Francisco Suárez
- Lawrence of Brindisi
- Galileo Galilei
- Péter Pázmány
- John of St. Thomas
- Michael Wadding
- René Descartes
- Matthias Tanner
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Blaise Pascal
- Noel Alexandre
- Giambattista Vico
- Giovanni Battista Scaramelli
- Peter Dens
- Alphonsus Liguori
- Febronius
- Francesco Antonio Zaccaria
Late Modern (born between 1750 A.D and 1900 A.D)
- Patrick Benedict Zimmer
- Joseph de Maistre
- Franz Xaver von Baader
- Georg Hermes
- Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais
- Anton Günther
- Izidor Guzmics
- Gioacchino Ventura di Raulica
- Luigi Taparelli
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
- Francis Xavier Patrizi
- Franz Anton Staudenmaier
- John Henry Newman
- Nicholas Wiseman
- Félix Dupanloup
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
- Orestes Brownson
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry
- Giuseppe Pecci
- Karl Josef von Hefele
- Jaime Balmes
- Pope Leo XIII
- Joseph Kleutgen
- Louis Veuillot
- Frederick William Faber
- Franz Jakob Clemens
- John Dobree Dalgairns
- Gregor Mendel
- Augusta Theodosia Drane
- Nicholas-Joseph Laforêt
- Albert Stöckl
- Joseph Hergenröther
- Charles Émile Freppel
- Constantine von Schäzler
- Ernest Hello
- Henry Nutcombe Oxenham
- Tommaso Maria Zigliara
- Franz Brentano
- Léon Ollé-Laprune
- Caspar Isenkrahe
- Henry Denifle
- Vladimir Solovyov
- Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
- Maurice Blondel
- Antonin Sertillanges
- Henri Brémond
- Maurice De Wulf
- Paul Claudel
- Aleš Ušeničnik
- Hilaire Belloc
- Charles Peguy
- G.K. Chesterton
- Max Scheler
- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Jacques Maritain
- Rudolf Allers
- Étienne Gilson
- Romano Guardini
- Christopher Dawson
- Gabriel Marcel
- Martin Heidegger
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning
- Charles Journet
- Edith Stein
- Louis de Raeymaeker
- Fulton Sheen
- Henri de Lubac
- Xavier Zubiri
- Austin Woodbury
- František Tomášek
Twentieth and Twenty-first Century
- Heinrich Schlier
- Jean Guitton
- Mortimer Jerome Adler, converted to Catholicism in 2000
- Christopher Butler
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Malcolm Muggeridge
- Yves Simon
- Evelyn Waugh
- Graham Greene
- Josef Pieper
- John Courtney Murray
- Karl Rahner
- Yves Congar
- Osvaldo Lira
- Bernard Lonergan
- Jean Danielou
- Emmanuel Mounier
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Louis Beirnaert
- Charles De Koninck
- Frederick Copleston
- Bernard Philip Kelly
- Bernard O'Brien
- Olivier Messiaen
- Hélder Câmara
- Cornelio Fabro
- Marshall McLuhan
- E. F. Schumacher
- Anna Terruwe
- George Duggan
- Karel Vladimir Truhlar
- Walter J. Ong
- Louis Bouyer
- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
- R. C. Zaehner
- Edward Schillebeeckx
- John Hardon
- Thomas Berry
- W. Norris Clarke
- Thomas Merton
- Vincent Miceli
- Peter Geach
- Gustave Martelet
- Walker Percy
- Avery Dulles
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Conrad Baars
- Emerich Coreth
- Henry Dumery
- Karol Wojtyła
- Joseph Fitzmyer
- Catharina Halkes
- Milan Komar
- Thomas Molnar
- Xavier Tilliette
- Jean Delumeau
- Jacques Dupuis
- Ernest Fortin
- Vekoslav Grmič
- René Girard
- Alice von Hildebrand
- Michel de Certeau
- Michael Dummett
- Louis Dupre
- Flannery O’Connor
- Servais Pinckaers
- Juan Luis Segundo
- Ivan Illich
- Robert Bork
- Robert Spaemann
- Joseph Ratzinger
- Raymond E. Brown
- Mary Daly
- Gustavo Gutiérrez
- Hans Kung
- William E. May
- Jean Vanier
- Nicholas Rescher
- James V. Schall
- Ralph McInerny
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Germain Grisez
- Ignacio Ellacuría
- Joseph A. Bracken
- C. J. F. Williams
- Charles Taylor
- Fergus Kerr
- Ferdinand Ulrich
- Joseph de Torre
- Henri Nouwen
- Walter Kasper
- Joan Chittister
- Michal Heller
- John Rist
- Richard John Neuhaus
- Antonin Scalia
- Peter Kreeft
- Leonardo Boff
- Jon Sobrino
- Mariano Artigas
- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
- David Tracy
- John Finnis
- Bas van Fraassen
- Angelo Scola
- John P. Meier
- Jacek Salij
- Jean-Luc Marion
- Thomas Weinandy
- Chantal Delsol
- Eleonore Stump
- Aidan Nichols
- Martin Rhonheimer
- William Desmond
- Jay Budziszewski
- Cyril O'Regan
- Catherine LaCugna
- John Joseph Haldane
- Tina Beattie
- Robert P. George
- Marie-Jo Thiel
- Gavin D'Costa
- Yves-Marie Adeline
- David Oderberg
- Hector Zagal
- Józef Stala
- Denis Moreau
- Edward Feser
- Ulrich L. Lehner