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 950 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)
 
High Medieval (born between 950 AD and 1300 AD)
    

Thomas Aquinas
- 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)
 - 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)
 
Renaissance and Early Modern (born between 1300 AD and 1650 AD)
    

Erasmus

René Descartes
- 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)
 - 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)
 
St. Francis de sales (1567-16220
- 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)
 
Colonial (born between 1650 AD and 1900 AD)
    

Portrait of Newman by John Everett Millais, 1881

Max Scheler
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- 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)
 - 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)
 - 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)
 
Modern (Born since 1900 AD)
    

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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