SCHOLASTICISM. - A quarterly periodical of philosophy and theology, founded in 1926 by the Jesuit professors of the College of St. Ignatius at Valkenburg (Holland).
After the College was dissolved on the occasion of the Second World War, the Jesuit professors of the theological faculty and of the higher philosophical-theological school of Frankfurt am Main and of the philosophical faculty of the College of St. John Berchmans at Pullach (Munich) took over the publication. Its director until 1935 was Fr. Herman Lange; from 1935 onward, Fr. Herman Weissweiler. The periodical aims to take a position on current fundamental philosophical questions, starting from scholastic philosophy and theology. But "scholastic" here is not to be understood in the historical meaning of the word, but rather in the sense of its fundamental historical principle, of a real and broad discussion of questions and problems, without ties to any determinate historical system. Each issue contains a clear and penetrating introduction to the new international philosophical and theological literature, insofar as it concerns fundamental questions.
Corrado Algermissen