Honorific Titles of Medieval Philosophers

Question: How can anyone today consider himself a serious student of human thought while roundly ignoring this illustrious list of some of the greatest and foundational minds of our civilization.?

Answer: anti-Catholic bigotry! The greatest source of darkness for the mind of contemporary man.

New Year's Resolution suggestion: Read some original work of these great pioneers of human thought for insights on how to progress in our present day educational crises!

Rhabanus Maurus                     Praeceptor Germaniae

Abelard                                    Peripateticus Palatinus

Alan of Lille                              Doctor universalis

Averrroes                                 Commentator

Alexander of Hales                   Doctor irrefragibilis

St. Bonaventure                        Doctor seraphicus

St. Albert the Great                  Doctor universalis

St. Thomas Aquinas                  Doctor angelicus and Doctor communis

Roger Bacon                            Doctor mirabilis

Richard of Middleton                Doctor solidus

Raymond Lull                           Doctor illuminatus

Giles of Rome                           Doctorfundatissimus

Henry of Ghent                         Doctor solemnis

Duns Scotus                             Doctor subtilis

Durandus                                  Doctor modernus, Doctor rosolutissimus (later)

Peter Aureoli                            Doctor facundus

William of Ockham                   Venerabilis inceptor

Antoine Andre                          Doctor dulcifluus

Francis de Marcia                     Doctor succinctus

John of Mirecourt                     Monachus albus

Gregory of Rimini                     Doctor authenticus

John Ruysbroeck                      Doctor admirabilis

Denis the Carthusian                 Doctor ecstaticus

John Gerson                             Doctor christianissimus

Jacob Bohme                           Philosophus teutonicus

Francis Suarez                          Doctor eximius

The big modern lie, which has it's roots in the false renaissance (contrary to the true renaissance which began in Italy in the 14th century, having it's roots in the 13th century intellectual movement which baptized [i.e. purified and appropriated] ancient thought [viz. Aristotle]; founded upon such literary giants as Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante [cf. Pastor History of the Popes, vol. I p. 1ff.], protestant revolt and french revolution and "enlightenment" has continually had the exclusion of Catholic thinkers as a fundamental tenet: Catholica non leguntur! (Catholic authors are not to be read) That was the topic of the notoriously misunderstood (and largely unread) Regensburg Address by Pope Benedict XVI.

That has always been the only absolute tenet of Protestantism (viz. it's fundamental bias against all authentic Catholic thought) and seems to be the only present day accepted bigotry--our modern "enlightenment" of ignorance! Reject Catholicism at all cost, even at the expense of reason! So that reason, ultimately, is not the modern God, but rather the Anti-Christ is.

I was reminded of this when I read aghast about the recent death of the Jewish hardcore porn pioneer and anti-Catholic bigot Al Goldstein who famously said "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks."

For the modern mind to be truly free, the spell of Christophobia must be broken. It is a false and dirty openness which excludes the illustrious heritage of Christian civilization. We can change this, one by one!

Happy New Year! And may God bless your research into these largely neglected treasures of Western civilization. Enjoy!