Aquinas
[uh-kwahy-nuh s]
- Saint Thomasthe Angelic Doctor, 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Contemporary Examples
Sorry Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Erasmus you must have been just a bad dream.
What allows evil to persist, Aquinas believed, is the “lack of good” by other people.
This professor at Aquinas College in Michigan has a rule: if your phone rings in class, you must answer it on speakerphone.
He wanted to read everything Augustine and Aquinas had ever written about just war theory.
I suspect his final opera omni in a critical German edition will equal in length that of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure.
Historical Examples
At all events, so he was interpreted by Averroes and later by Aquinas.
Dante: His Times and His WorkArthur John Butler
Would the Age of Aquinas have been content with anything less?
InstigationsEzra Pound
Morose delectation Aquinas tunbelly calls this, frate porcospino.
UlyssesJames Joyce
His first allusion to Aquinas, Colet had resolutely shunned.
The Oxford ReformersFrederic Seebohm
But for this the Aristotelian commentaries of Aquinas must be awaited.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)Henry Osborn Taylor
Aquinas
- Saint Thomas. 1225–74, Italian theologian, scholastic philosopher, and Dominican friar, whose works include Summa contra Gentiles (1259–64) and Summa Theologiae (1267–73), the first attempt at a comprehensive theological system. Feast day: Jan 28See also Thomism
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