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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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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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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 taught at Paris, Cologne, Rome, and Bologna, and became so celebrated for learning as to be known as the "Angelic Doctor."

From Early European History by Hutton Webster

Death of Thomas Aquinas, the "Angelic Doctor," while on his way to attend the council of Lyons.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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