On Dec. 6, 1273, 750 years ago, St. Thomas Aquinas did the unthinkable: He permanently abandoned work on his magnum opus, the Summa Theologiae, after many years of intensive labor and just months ...

Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae: A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books) Bernard McGinn (Author) Princeton University Press. 272 pages ...

Seven hundred and fifty years ago Thursday (March 7), St. Thomas Aquinas died, having written some 8 million words in two decades of intensive work, including his masterpiece, the Summa Theologiae ...

Aquinas’ answer lies in a short but poignant text from “Summa Theologiae,” his best-known work. Christians should venerate relics, Aquinas says, because the saints’ bodies were dwelled in ...

St. Thomas Aquinas is depicted with students in a window at St. Peter's Church in St. Peter, Minnesota. He wrote Summa Theologiae and articulated a theological synthesis that would influence ...

St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, was deeply in love with God. ... This prompted him to begin a detailed compendium, which he called the “Summa Theologica.” ...

In the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas offers a total of four explanations. For Aquinas, the descent to hell is the metaphysical complement to the burial of Christ’s body.

St. Thomas Aquinas is depicted holding his famous ‘Summa Theologiae.’ (photo: Bénédicte Cedergren / EWTN) Bénédicte Cedergren Education January 28, 2024 ...

The philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas is highly systematic, profound, mystical and elaborate, and was recorded in the 13th century. In a word, it is “formidable.” And yet, Aquinas is the master ...