Although many modern Roman Catholic theologians do not find St. His doctrinal system and the explanations and developments made by his followers are known as Thomism. As a theologian, he was responsible in his two masterpieces, the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles, for the classical systematization of Latin theology, and, as a poet, he wrote some of the most gravely beautiful eucharistic hymns in the church’s liturgy.

He developed his own conclusions from Aristotelian premises, notably in the metaphysics of personality, creation, and Providence. Thomas Aquinas, Italian San Tommaso d’Aquino, also called Aquinas, byname Doctor Angelicus (Latin: “Angelic Doctor”), (born 1224/25, Roccasecca, near Aquino, Terra di Lavoro, Kingdom of Sicily -died March 7, 1274, Fossanova, near Terracina, Latium, Papal States canonized Jfeast day January 28, formerly March 7), Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholastic. Thomism later became an important school of thought even within secular philosophy. He produced a comprehensive synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotelian philosophy that influenced Roman Catholic doctrine for centuries and was adopted as the official philosophy of the church in 1917. Thomas Aquinas was the greatest of the Scholastic philosophers. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.

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