At times, a reactionary, legislative, and disciplinary form of Thomism was deployed, directed inward at members of the Church, chiefly about uses of philosophy in the study of sacred doctrine. (firstthings.com)
Russell Hittinger has brought out further complexities of Thomistic developments in the wake of Aeterni Paths: «Thomists developed rather freewheeling accounts of the political, economic, legal and social order -LSB-... putting] Thomism in an offensive mode as far as social doctrine went -LSB-... whereas] in matters related to sacred doctrine [philosophical] Thomism would be put into a defensive role» such that scholasticism could not be publicly challenged within the Church. (faith.org.uk)
Still, the disciplinary form of Thomism may have created more problems than it solved, even when properly applied to matters of sacred doctrine. (firstthings.com)