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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]
Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino; born c. 1225; died 7 March 1274) was a priest, philosopher and theologian of the Catholic Church. His best-known works are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. He is one of 33 Doctors of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas discussed merit extensively in his early Commentary on the Sentences and in his mature Summa Theologica. In both texts, Aquinas views human life as a "journey" which starts with the conversion from sin to grace and ends in the beatific vision , a process marked by the good actions which make the soul closer to God and hold the ...
The Routledge guidebook to Aquinas' Summa Theologiae. Routledge guides to the great books. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-72842-1. Porro, Pasquale (2016). Thomas Aquinas: a historical and philosophical profile. Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-2805-1. Vollert, Cyril (1958). "Translator's preface".
The remains of Thomas Aquinas are buried in the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse. The canonization of Thomas Aquinas was commemorated on two occasions. The first ceremony took place on 14 July 1323 at the Palais des Papes in Avignon and was attended by members of the royal family led by Robert, King of Naples, and his wife, Sancia of Majorca.
[2] [3] The dictionary does not contain any additional commentary or explanatory notes, with the exception of the introduction by Theodore E. James, which contains a summary of the life and works of Thomas Aquinas. [4] Most of the quotations are taken from the Summa Theologica, Aquinas's best-known work, with others from the Summa contra Gentiles.
Statue of Saint Thomas Aquinas at the Dominican cloister of Huissen, Lingewaard.. De regimine Judaeorum, ad Ducissam Brabantiae (lit. ' On the government of the jews, to the Duchess of Brabant '), also known as the Epistula ad Ducissam Brabantiae, is an epistle written by Dominican friar and Catholic saint Thomas Aquinas to Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant.
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