Thomas Aquinas has written some amazong works and is very hard to many. His writings are a challenge to many scholars and one that is truly a feat in and of itself. Now how does one make available the wisdom of the great saint and teacher to the regular average person?
So order to answer this question and to help better relate such amazing teachings the publisher has broken down into simple quotes the words of this great man.
The quotes are taken from his writings: summa theologica and summa gentiles.
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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