Angelic Doctor

noun

1. an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas

Example Sentences

The angelic doctor means here living faith, or fides formata.

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Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest of the scholastic philosophers, surnamed the "Angelic Doctor," is delivering a learned discourse before King Louis IX.

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The account there given of it is not uninteresting, and is preceded by a cursory advertence to the other hymns of the Middle Ages, including a Greek version of some of the stanzas of Thomas Aquinas, the "Angelic Doctor's," impressive "Lauda Sion."

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Aquinas was called “the angelic doctor.” l.

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In this context the angelic doctor, following Aristotle, places the virtues of temperance and fortitude in the sense appetite as controlled by the rational will.

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