Excerpt from Somme Theologique de S. Thomas d'Aquin, Vol. 14: Traduite en Francais Et Annotee
Comme le dit saint Gregoire, il y a sacrement dans une ceremonie, quand le rit accompli se fait de telle sorte qu'il signifie une chose qu'on doit recevoir saintement. Or il est manifeste que, dans la penitence, la rit accompli se fait de maniere qu'il signifie une chose sainte, tant de la part du pecheur penitent que de la part du pretre absolvant car le pe cheur penitent montre, par ce qu'il fait et dit, que son coeur a quitte le peche; puis le pretre, par ce qu'il dit et fait a l'egard du penitent, si guine l'oeuvre de Dieu remettant les peches. Il est donc clair que la pe nitence, telle qu'elle se pratique dans l'eglise, est un sacrement.
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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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