Excerpt from S. Thom� Aquinatis Doctoris Angelici, Ord. Pr�d. Opuscula Selecta Ad Fidem Optimarum Editionum Diligenter Recusa Opem Ferente Quodam Sacr� Theologi� Professore, Vol. 2: Expositionem in Librum Boetii "De Trinitate" Et Qu�stiones Quodlibetales XII Continens
Deo cognoscuntur et a Beatis secundum modum suum. Et sic de divinis duplex scientia habetur una secundum mo dum nostrum, qua sensibilium principia accipit ad notifi candum divina, et sic de divinis philosophi scientism tra diderunt, philosophism primam divinam scientiam dicen tes; alia secundum modum ipsorum divinorum, ut ipsa divina secundum seipsa capiantur qua quidem perfecte nobis in statu via est impossibilia, sed fit nobis in statu via quadam illius cognitionis participatio et assimilatio ad cognitionem divinam, in quantum per fidem nobis infusam inhaeremus ipsi prima veritati propter seipsam. Et sicut Deus cx hoc ipso quod cognoscit alia modo suo, id est sim plici intuitu, non discurrendo; ita nos ex his qua fide os pimus, prima veritati inharendo, venimus in cognitionem aliorum secundum modum nostrum, scilicet discurrcndo de principiis ad conclusiones. Uncle primo ipsa qua fide tene mus sunt nobis quasi prima principia in hac scientia, et alia sunt quasi conclusiones. Ex quo patetquod hac'scient�a est altior illa divina quam philosophi tradiderunt, cum ex altioribus principiis procedat.
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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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