Aquinas

[ uh-kwahy-nuhs ]

noun

1. Saint Thomas the Angelic Doctor, 1225?–74, Italian scholastic philosopher: a major theologian of the Roman Catholic Church.

Aquinas

/ əˈkwaɪnəs /

noun

1. AquinasThomas, Saint12251274MItalianRELIGION: theologianPHILOSOPHY: philosopherRELIGION: clergymanRELIGION: saint Saint Thomas. 1225–74, Italian theologian, scholastic philosopher, and Dominican friar, whose works include Summa contra Gentiles (1259–64) and Summa Theologiae (1267–73), the first attempt at a comprehensive theological system. Feast day: Jan 28 See also Thomism

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Example Sentences

Sorry Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Erasmus you must have been just a bad dream.

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What allows evil to persist, Aquinas believed, is the “lack of good” by other people.

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This professor at Aquinas College in Michigan has a rule: if your phone rings in class, you must answer it on speakerphone.

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He wanted to read everything Augustine and Aquinas had ever written about just war theory.

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I suspect his final opera omni in a critical German edition will equal in length that of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure.

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If there is to be a fiction at all, which we think there need not be, we infinitely prefer the legal fiction of Aquinas.

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He was not so voluminous a writer as Thomas Aquinas, but less diffuse; his style is lucid, like that of Voltaire.

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The world never saw a more complete system of dogmatic theology than that elaborated by Thomas Aquinas.

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But Aquinas, with his Aristotelian method of syllogism and definitions, could not go beyond Augustine.

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It is no doubt an exaggeration to say that there would have been no Aquinas if Maimonides had not preceded him.

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