Tommaso Demaria

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Tommaso Demaria SDB (born November 21, 1908 in Vezza d'Alba , † July 12, 1996 in Turin ) was an Italian Salesian of Don Bosco and theologian . He was best known for his Thomistic studies.

Life

After primary school, he went to the Alba seminary to complete the first years of high school. For the following years he attended the Salesian traineeship in Penango Monferrato , Asti . On September 24, 1925, he entered the novitiate of Villa Moglia di Chieri and finished it with his first profession. After studying higher studies and philosophy at the Lyceum in Valsalice from 1926 to 1928 and completing his three-year Salesian internship, he went to study theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1931 to 1935 . He was ordained a priest on October 28, 1934 . From 1935 to 1940 he deepened his theological training at the Institute for Mission Studies of the Pontifical Urban University . Between 1940 and 1979 he taught at the theological faculty of the Pontifical Atheneum of the Salesians in Turin and Rome, which in 1973 became the Pontifical University of the Salesians with its seat in Rome.

His main research interests were broad and ranged from the history of religion , missiology, philosophy and sociology of education , fundamental theology , Catholic social doctrine to dogmatics .

His work was shaped by his friend Paolo Arnaboldi SDB, who founded the Church Movement Fac (Fraterno aiuto cristiano) in 1948 , the “Christian Aid”.

The work of the Italian philosophical society Associazione Nuova Costruttività (“Association for New Constructivity”) is based on his work .

Works

  • La Religione , Colle Don Bosco 1945
  • Sintesi sociale cristiana: metafisica della realta sociale , Turin 1957
  • Presupposti dottrinali per la pastorale el 'apostolato , Velate di Varese 1958
  • Realismo dinamico , Turin 1963
  • Catechismo del cristiano apostolo: la Salvezza cristiana , Turin 1967
  • Punti orientativi ideologico-sociali , Bologna 1974
  • Sintesi sociale cristiana: riflessioni sulla realta sociale , Bologna 1975
  • L'ideologia cristiana , Bologna 1975
  • Il Marxismo , Verona 1976
  • / Negrar Arbizzano: Ideologia come prassi razionalizzata , 1980
  • Verso il duemila: per una mobilitazione giovanile religiosa e ideologica , Verona 1982
  • Per una nuova cultura , Verona 1982
  • Un tema complesso sullo sfondo dell'ideologia come strumento ideologico , Verona 1984
  • Confronto sinottico delle tre ideologie: quarta series: corso di studio, Roma, Centro Nazareth, 16-30 December 1985 , 1985

literature

  • Giuseppe Tacconi, La persona e oltre: soggettivita personale e soggettivita ecclesiale nel contesto del pensiero di Tommaso Demaria. Rome 1996
  • Donato Bagnardi, Costruttori di un'umanità nuova. Globalizzazione e metafisica dopo Tommaso Demaria. 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Demaria, Tommaso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demaria, Tommaso SDB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian religious and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vezza d'Alba
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1996
Place of death Turin