Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas (1225 – March 7, 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition. He gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Roman Catholic Church. He is considered by the Catholic Church to be its greatest theologian and one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church. Institutions of learning named for him are the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the University of Saint Thomas, Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Aquinas College in Stockport, England, Aquinas College in Perth, Western Australia, and the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, the Philippines.

External links

by Aquinas:

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• Summa contra Gentiles
• Summa Theologica
• The Principles of Nature
• On Being and Essence (De Ente et Essentia)
• Catena Aurea (partial)
• Corpus Thomisticum - the works of St. Thomas Aquinas (Latin)

about Aquinas:

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• Catholic Encyclopedia article
• Biography of Aquinas by G. K. Chesterton (Warning: protected by copyright outside of Australia)
• On the legend of St. Albert's automaton
• Aquinas on Intelligent Extra-Terrestrial Life
• St Thomas of Aquinas Selected Prayers and poems
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
• http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/filosofi/autori/tommaso-scheda.htm bio and ideas at SWIF/University of Bari/Italy