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Angelic Doctor

British  

noun

  1. an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Maritain is largely responsible for the upsurge of interest in the philosophic system of the 13th Century's "Angelic Doctor."

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He was 49, and the author of more than 40 thick volumes of philosophy and theology so harmonious to Catholic teaching that he became known as "the Angelic Doctor."

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St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems.

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But there are some who have been unable to convince themselves that the Angelic Doctor has made his mind entirely clear on the subject.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey

He new modelled the school- divinity, and was therefore called the Angelic Doctor, and Eagle of Divines.

From Hudibras by Samuel Butler

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