“Our Father” is the principal of all prayers, and consists of everything we wish for and everything that we should avoid, says the saint. Tomás goes on to explain the distinct petitions of “Our Father” and the invocations of the Avemaria with the aplomb of the wise and the tenderness of a saint. And you are bringing together the main prayer request with bliss, the Magna Carta of Christianity.
Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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