Thomas Aquinas
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- St Thomas Aquinas
- Early life
- 1225-1274
- Fossanova= Southern Italy
- Noble and well connected family of A'quino
- Educated at Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino.
- Destined for an important role in the church.
- Angered his family by becoming a Dominican a new and radical religious order.
- Dominican
- Founded by St Dominic Guzman (1170-1221) and was founded in combat in Southern France.
- Were mendicants and generally lived in cities with universities.
- Supported scholarship and became the church's intellectuals.
- Studied under St Albert the Great
- Lectured in Italy and Paris.
- Aquinas defended the Dominican order through writing.
- Scholar
- 'Summa Contra Gentiles and 'Summa Theoligica'
- Aquinas defended the Dominican order through writing.
- Main purpose to equip Christian Missionaries.
- End of his life
- In 1273 he had a visionn of Jesus in mass.
- Jesus asked him what he would like and he replied- 'Only you Lord, only you'.
- Never wrote again and stated- 'I cannot because all that I have written seems like straw'
- In 1273 he had a visionn of Jesus in mass.
- Influences
- Scriptures and Fathers of the church, St Augustine and Aristotle
- Aristotle
- Writing largely been lost in Western countries.
- Islamic scholars in Southern Spain translated from Greek into Latin and Arabic.
- Made them available in the West.
- Thomas Aquinas' books were burnt by the Bishop of Paris after his death and his influence grow.
- Pope Leo XIII made his work the official Phiosophy of the Church.
- Thomism
- In modern times called Neo-Thomist.
- Jacques Maritain, Karl Bahmer.
- In modern times called Neo-Thomist.
- Qua Regularity (design in relation to the order and regularity in the universe)
- The order is evident of a designer- God.
- Nothing that has a purpose does not without a giving hand.
- Inanimate objects (like planets) could not achieve order without a command from a being.
- Perfect order/ orbit is
- Early life
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