St. Thomas Aquinas' Catena Aurea or "golden chain" is a rich anthology of Patristic commentary on the four Gospels, including quotes from over fifty Church Fathers. Catena Aurea is structured by presenting each verse to be analyzed followed by commentary from the Church Fathers in a condensed form.
During the 13th century when this work was compiled there was a renewed interest in going back to the original interpretation and many of the works of the Eastern Fathers were translated from Greek to Latin.
St. Thomas Aquinas was given the task to write the Catena Aurea by Pope Urban IV, so that a commentary on the Gospels be available to all readers. John Henry Newman translated the work into English in 1841.
This ebook form of the work is linked to the World English Bible.
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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