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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.
De substantiis separatis, seu de angelorum natura, ad fr. Reginaldum, socium suum carissimum: c. 1268 De secreto: by 1269 Disputed Questions on Spiritual Creatures (Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis) 1266–1269 De perfectione vitae spiritualis: 1269 Commentary on the Book Of Causes (Super librum De causis expositio) by 1270
The International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Spanish: Consejo Internacional de Universidades Santo Tomás de Aquino) is a world-wide network of universities inspired by the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. Generally known as ICUSTA, it promotes academic exchange between students, professors and researchers. ICUSTA unites ...
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 as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. [8]
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 ...
The Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1631) by Francisco de Zurbarán. The Apotheosis of Saint Thomas Aquinas is a 1631 altarpiece painting by Francisco de Zurbarán, originally painted for the Dominican College of Seville, but now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. [1] [2] It is Zurbarán's largest composition. [3]
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).
The work, for a period, was attributed to Murcian painter Nicolás de Villacis, until it was recognized as Velázquez's in the 1920s. It portrays the episode of the life of Saint Thomas Aquinas when, as a novice, he resisted the temptation represented by a prostitute, who is visible in the background door.