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The biblical text surrounded by a catena, in Minuscule 556. A catena (from Latin catena, a chain) is a form of biblical commentary, verse by verse, made up entirely of excerpts from earlier Biblical commentators, each introduced with the name of the author, and with such minor adjustments of words to allow the whole to form a continuous commentary.
A collection of glosses from the Church Fathers on the Gospels (Catena aurea) Systematic works (Summa Theologiae, Summa contra Gentiles, and commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences) Biblical commentaries on Job, Psalms and Isaiah, Canticles and Jeremiah, John, Matthew, and on the epistles of Paul Nine exegeses of Scriptural books; Liturgical works
It was in Orvieto that Thomas completed Summa contra Gentiles, which was followed by the Catena aurea [11] and minor works produced for Pope Urban IV such as the liturgy for the newly created feast of Corpus Christi and the Contra errores graecorum. [5] Parts of the text have survived in Aquinas's autograph, kept in the Vatican Library as Lat ...
De aeternitate mundi was written in the context of a philosophical confrontation between Christian Platonists and Aristotelians.The former, who followed Plato's system as the most appropriate for theological interpretation, criticised Aristotle's notion of an eternal universe, which was perpetually intervened by the Unmoved Mover, on the grounds of its opposition to the Catholic doctrine of ...
Thomas Aquinas OP (/ ə ˈ k w aɪ n ə s / ⓘ ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian [6] Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, [7] as well one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. [8]
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Anton Kirchweger (died 8 February 1746) [1] He was the editor or the author of the influential German hermetical book Aurea Catena Homeri (Golden Chain of Homer); Aurea Catena Homeri oder, Eine Beschreibung von dem Ursprung der Natur und natürlichen Dingen (The Golden Chain of Homer, or A Description of Nature and Natural Things).
Unlike other works from Aquinas, De regno defends a strong and authoritarian monarchical rule as necessary and does not favour the creation of a mixed regime.This particular position has been explained as a reaction to the state of social unrest and upheaval caused by a series of internal revolts that started in 1233, which caused Cyprus to fall into a state of political instability.