Thomas Aquinas

[ tom-uhs ]

noun

1. Saint. Aquinas, Saint Thomas.

Aquinas, Thomas

1. A thirteenth-century Italian priest and philosopher who became the most influential theologian of the Middle Ages . Aquinas, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church , sought to reconcile faith and reason by showing that elements of the philosophy of Aristotle were compatible with Christianity . His greatest work is the Summa Theologica.

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He was not so voluminous a writer as Thomas Aquinas, but less diffuse; his style is lucid, like that of Voltaire.

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The world never saw a more complete system of dogmatic theology than that elaborated by Thomas Aquinas.

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Like the brazen servant Thomas Aquinas made under the influence of particular stars.

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St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1227, and became the greatest theologian and master of logic and powerful reasoner of his age.

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God, says Thomas Aquinas, calls us to a supernatural end, which by his natural powers man could not attain.

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