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.

Writings

The writings of Thomas may be classified as:

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:(1) exegetical, homiletical, and liturgical;

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:(2) dogmatic, apologetic, and ethical; and

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:(3) philosophical.

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Category (1) includes:

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• Commentaries on Job (1261-65), Psalms i - li, and Isaiah
• Catena aurea (1475)- a running commentary on the four Gospels, constructed on numerous citations from the Church Fathers
• Commentaries on Canticles and Jeremiah
• reportata, on John, on Matthew, and on the epistles of Paul, including, according to one authority, Hebrews i.-x.
• Officium de corpora Christi (1264).

Numerous other works have been attributed to him.

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Category (2):

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• In quatuor sententiarum libros
• Quaestiones disputatae
• Quaestiones quodlibetales duodecim; Summa catholicae fidei contra gentiles (1261-64);
• Summa theologiae - his magnum opus.

Also: Expositio in librum beati Dionysii de divinis nominibus; Expositiones primoe et secundoe decretalis; In Boethii libros de hebdomadibus

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Proeclaroe quoestiones super librum Boethii de trinitate

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Category (3):

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Thirteen commentaries on Aristotle, and numerous philosophical opuscula of which fourteen are classed as genuine.

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Some major works

• De Fallaciis, 1244
• De Propositionibus Modalibus, 1244-1245
• On Being and Essence (De Ente et Essentia), 1254-1256
• The Principles of Nature, 1255
• Disputed Questions, 1256-1272
• On Truth (De Veritate), 1256-1259
• Concerning the Teacher
• On the Power of God, 1265-1267
• Contra Impugnantes Dei Cultum et Religionem, 1257
• On the Trinity of Boethius, 1257-1258
• Super Boethium de Hebdomadibus, 1258
• Summa contra Gentiles, 1258-1264
• On Kingship: To the King of Cyprus, 1265-1266
• Summa Theologica, 1265-1272
• On Spiritual Creatures, 1266-1269
• De Perfectione Vitae Spiritualis, 1269
• Contra Pestiferam Doctrinam Retrahentium Homines a Religionis Ingressu, 1270
• De Aeternitate Mundi Contra Murmurantes, 1270
• The Unicity of the Intellect, 1270
• De Substantiis Separatis, 1272-1273
• Compendium of Theology, 1273
• De Mixtione Elementorum ad Magistrum Philippe, 1273
• Two Precepts of Charity, 1273
• De Natura Materiae et Dimensionibus Interminalis
• De Natura Verbi Intellectus
• Catena aurea
• First Treatise on Univerals
• Commentary on the Logic of Aristotle

("Bibliography", 1990)

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