Emerich Coreth (10 August 1919 – 1 September 2006) was an Austrian Philosopher, Jesuit and Catholic Priest.
A close associate of Karl Rahner, Coreth is a renowned neo-Thomist of 20th century.
Born into an aristocratic family at Raabs an der Thaya, a small village in Lower Austria, near the border to the Czech Republic, he grew up in Vienna and joined the Jesuits in 1937.
He was one of the philosophers who sought the creative recovery of Thomas Aquinas' metaphysics through the transcendental method introduced by Joseph Maréchal.
[3] This book refuted critics such as Etienne Gilson, who argued that transcendental turn among Thomists can only lead to phenomenalism or idealism.