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7 dic 2022 · The greatest figure of thirteenth-century Europe in the two preeminent sciences of the era, philosophy and theology, he epitomizes the scholastic method of the newly founded universities. Like Dante or Michelangelo, Aquinas takes inspiration from antiquity, especially Aristotle , and builds something entirely new.
- Ralph McInerny, John O'Callaghan
- 1999
Thomas Aquinas OP (/ ə ˈ k w aɪ n ə s /, ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
St. Thomas Aquinas is one of the most important thinkers in the history of Christianity. Learning from him can seem intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. With Aquinas 101, you’ll dig into Aquinas’s thought on the most pressing questions: What is man? Who is God? What is happiness? Who is Jesus Christ, and how is he present to the world ...
For a continually updated bibliography of St. Thomas in English, see Thérèse Bonin's Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography. Cf. also the Aquinas Institute's online Latin-English editions; get a random St. Thomas quote.
25 gen 2012 · The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas is an introduction to this influential author and a guide to his thought on almost all the major topics on which he wrote. The book begins with an account of Aquinas's life and works.
St. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican priest and Scriptural theologian. He took seriously the medieval maxim that “grace perfects and builds on nature; it does not set it aside or destroy it.”
Aquinas: Metaphysics. Metaphysics is taken by Thomas Aquinas to be the study of being qua being, that is, a study of the most fundamental aspects of being that constitute a being and without which it could not be. Aquinas’s metaphysical thought follows a modified but general Aristotelian view.
