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  Thomas Aquinas

  noun

  Saint. Aquinas, Saint Thomas.
• Aquinas, Thomas
  Aquinas, Thomas

  A thirteenth-century Italian priest and philosopher who became the most influential theologian of the Middle Ages. Aquinas, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, sought to reconcile faith and reason by showing that elements of the philosophy of Aristotle were compatible with Christianity. His greatest work is the Summa Theologica.

Thomas Aquinas

American  

[tom-uhs] / ˈtɒm əs /

noun

1. Saint. Aquinas, Saint Thomas.

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Aquinas, Thomas Cultural  

1. A thirteenth-century Italian priest and philosopher who became the most influential theologian of the Middle Ages. Aquinas, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, sought to reconcile faith and reason by showing that elements of the philosophy of Aristotle were compatible with Christianity. His greatest work is the Summa Theologica.

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Amen, who was originally from Eritrea, lived with his father in Glasgow and attended St Thomas Aquinas secondary school in Jordanhill.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

He spent his first two years at St. Thomas Aquinas, a storied football program in Fort Lauderdale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

Passages from Genesis and Exodus, various theological tracts, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards take their place alongside the writings of U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

He studied philosophy and history at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany, and became enamored with Thomas Aquinas, whose medieval philosophy inspired his thesis.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Even as the Crusades drew to a close in the thirteenth century, Saint Thomas Aquinas declared that God could not make something that was infinite any more than he could make a scholarly horse.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Aquinas, Thomas, birthplace of, 276; tomb of, 331;monastery of, 333.

From Italy, the Magic Land by Whiting, Lilian