Aquinas
Saint Thomas "the Angelic Doctor", 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.
Other words from Aquinas
- A·qui·nist, noun
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How to use Aquinas in a sentence
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.
If there is to be a fiction at all, which we think there need not be, we infinitely prefer the legal fiction of Aquinas.
He was not so voluminous a writer as Thomas Aquinas, but less diffuse; his style is lucid, like that of Voltaire.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI | John LordThe world never saw a more complete system of dogmatic theology than that elaborated by Thomas Aquinas.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI | John LordBut Aquinas, with his Aristotelian method of syllogism and definitions, could not go beyond Augustine.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI | John LordIt is no doubt an exaggeration to say that there would have been no Aquinas if Maimonides had not preceded him.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husik
British Dictionary definitions for Aquinas
/ (əˈkwaɪnəs) /
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 28: See also Thomism
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