Aquinas

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/ əˈkwaɪ nəs /

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noun

Saint Thomas "the Angelic Doctor", 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.

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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.
Deconstructing David Brat’s ‘Scholarship’|Candida Moss|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What allows evil to persist, Aquinas believed, is the “lack of good” by other people.
Government Has Made America Inept|Philip K. Howard|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This professor at Aquinas College in Michigan has a rule: if your phone rings in class, you must answer it on speakerphone.
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He wanted to read everything Augustine and Aquinas had ever written about just war theory.
Jon Favreau on Obama’s War for Peace|Jon Favreau|September 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST

I suspect his final opera omni in a critical German edition will equal in length that of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure.
Benedict the Philosopher|Justin Green|March 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If there is to be a fiction at all, which we think there need not be, we infinitely prefer the legal fiction of Aquinas.
British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV|Various
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 Lord
The world never saw a more complete system of dogmatic theology than that elaborated by Thomas Aquinas.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI|John Lord
But Aquinas, with his Aristotelian method of syllogism and definitions, could not go beyond Augustine.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI|John Lord
It 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

Aquinas

/ (əˈkwaɪnəs) /

noun

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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