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Thomas Aquinas was posthumously excommunicated, but later pronounced a saint.Thomas Aquinas = exceedingly influential philosopher who greatly furthered Catholic reconciliation of faith and reason (1225-1274)
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I read the passage Owen had underlined most fervently in his copy of St. Thomas Aquinas—"Demonstration of God's Existence from Motion."† (source)
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Not very long after St. Thomas Aquinas, cracks began to appear in the unifying culture of Christianity.† (source)
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By comparison, sir, my life is far closer to that of St. Thomas Aquinas—† (source)
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But you'll labor like Thomas Aquinas over a rat-dog's pedigree.† (source)
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He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith.† (source)
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To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.† (source)
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The real fun is working up hatred between those who say "mass" and those who say "holy communion" when neither party could possibly state the difference between, say, Hooker's doctrine and Thomas Aquinas', in any form which would hold water for five minutes.† (source)
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The town would not have seemed strange to Thomas Aquinas,—but he to the town.† (source)
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Thomas Aquinas, as the result of a mystical experience while celebrating mass in Naples, put his pen and ink on the shelf and left the last chapters of his Summa Theologica to be completed by another hand.† (source)
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Like Thomas Aquinas, they regarded trade in general—the basic commercial act of buying and selling for a profit without having altered or improved the product—as a despicable occupation.† (source)
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So Mr. Casaubon's patience held out further, and when after all it turned out that the head of Saint Thomas Aquinas would be more perfect if another sitting could be had, it was granted for the morrow.† (source)
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In the duffel bag was his diary, and his well-worn paperback edition of Selections from the Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas—I took them both; and his Bible.† (source)
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The Middle Ages had St. Thomas Aquinas, who tried to build a bridge between Aristotle's philosophy and Christian theology.† (source)
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The result of all was so far from displeasing to Mr. Casaubon, that he arranged for the purchase of the picture in which Saint Thomas Aquinas sat among the doctors of the Church in a disputation too abstract to be represented, but listened to with more or less attention by an audience above.† (source)
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St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas had already said something similar, namely, that man had a body like the animals and a soul like the angels.† (source)
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