The Complete Works of Thomas Aquinas

by Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Parker (Translator)

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) was a Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist. He was born in Italy. He was a proponent of natural theology and he argued that reason is found in God. His influence on Western thought is considerable. Much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Unlike many currents in the Church of the time, Thomas embraced the ideas of Aristotle, whom he called "the Philosopher." Included in this app are the following Summa Theologiae (1265–1274) Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265) A Patristic Commentary on Matthew A Patristic Commentary on Mark A Patristic Commentary on Luke A Patristic Commentary on John This ebook form is cross-linked to itself and to the World English Version of the Bible.

Genres: Philosophy

20044 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2018

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Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican friar and theologian of Italy and the most influential thinker of the medieval period, combined doctrine of Aristotle and elements of Neoplatonism, a system that Plotinus and his successors developed and based on that of Plato, within a context of Christian thought; his works include the Summa contra gentiles (1259-1264) and the Summa theologiae or theologica (1266-1273).

Saint Albertus Magnus taught Saint Thomas Aquinas.

People ably note this priest, sometimes styled of Aquin or Aquino, as a scholastic. The Roman Catholic tradition honors him as a "doctor of the Church."

Aquinas lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that obtained for centuries. This crisis flared just as people founded universities. Thomas after early studies at Montecassino moved to the University of Naples, where he met members of the new Dominican order. At Naples too, Thomas first extended contact with the new learning. He joined the Dominican order and then went north to study with Albertus Magnus, author of a paraphrase of the Aristotelian corpus. Thomas completed his studies at the University of Paris, formed out the monastic schools on the left bank and the cathedral school at Notre Dame. In two stints as a regent master, Thomas defended the mendicant orders and of greater historical importance countered both the interpretations of Averroës of Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy. The result, a new modus vivendi between faith and philosophy, survived until the rise of the new physics. The Catholic Church over the centuries regularly and consistently reaffirmed the central importance of work of Thomas for understanding its teachings concerning the Christian revelation, and his close textual commentaries on Aristotle represent a cultural resource, now receiving increased recognition.