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thomas aquinas
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Publisher: Penguin Classics | ISBN: 9780140436327 | Pages: 850
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Brings together sermons, commentary responses to criticism, and substantial extracts from the "Summa Theologiae," arranged chronologically.

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Philosophy of SaintThomas Aquinas, a Dominican friar and theologian of Italy and the most influential thinker of the medieval period, combined doctrine ofAristotleand elements of Neoplatonism, a system thatPlotinusand his successors developed and based on that ofPlato, within a context of Christian thought; his works include theSumma contra gentiles(1259-1264) and theSumma theologiaeortheologica(1266-1273).SaintAlbertus Magnustaught 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 themodus vivendithat 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 withAlbertus 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 ofAverroësof Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy. The result, a newmodus vivendibetween 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.

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