St thomas aquinas

Description St. Thomas Aquinas icon January 29th, 2013 Ink, watercolor, gold leaf “I prayed, and understanding was given me; I entreated, and the spirit of wisdom came to me. I esteemed wisdom more than scepter or throne; compared with her, I held riches to be nothing. Who will know your design, O Lord, unless you bestow wisdom, and send down your Holy Spirit from above?” - Wisdom 7:7-8; 9:17 “Blessed be the Lord; for love of him Saint Thomas Aquinas spent long hours in prayer, study and…

St. Thomas aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas- (1225-1274) was a philosopher, theologian, and monk who helped bridge the gap between medieval faith and the philosopher of reason promoted by Greek philosophy.

There are a great many saints who will never be known on this side of God’s grace; whose lives merited heavenly bliss but not the history books. But this host of secret saints represents the central secret of what it means to be a saint: who a person is is more important than what a […]

In the Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas includes five arguments answering the question of whether we can know if God exists. In his five ways, Aquinas uses human reason to conclude what faith has already revealed to us.Aquinas drew on the philosophy of Aristotle in his theology, using both faith a

"Above all the Scholastic Doctors towers Thomas Aquinas, prince and master of them all, who, as Cajetan observes, "because he profoundly revered the holy Doctors who preceded him inherited in a way the intellect of all, intellectum omnium quodammodo sortitus est." Thomas gathered their doctrines together, as if they were the scattered members of the same body, and knitted them into one whole. He assembled them in an admirable order, and so increased them with valuable additions that he is…

St. Thomas Aquinas. San Marco church, Florence.

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