Tomas de Aquino fue uno de los filosofos y teologos mas influyentes en toda la historia de la iglesia, siendo canonizado en el ano 1333. La repercusion de su pensamiento llego a ser inmensa y su doctrina practicamente se convirtio en el pensamiento oficial de la iglesia durante muchos siglos. Menos conocido es el hecho de que fue tambien un alquimista avanzado, discipulo del gran Alberto Magno. Este volumen recoge dos sorprendentes obras alquimicas de Santo Tomas de Aquino, en las que se hace patente su profundo conocimiento del arte alquimico, al tiempo que su admiracion y respeto a los alquimistas arabes, especialmente Avicena y Geber.
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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