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Biography of Thomas Aquinas, St.
Name: Thomas Aquinas, St.
Birth Date: c. 1224
Death Date: March 7, 1274
Place of Birth: Roccasecca, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher, theologian
Thomas Aquinas, St.
The Italian philosopher and theologian St. Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1224-1274) was one of the foremost minds of medieval scholasticism. He is recognized as the leading theological authority within the Roman Catholic Church.The central question facing Christian thinkers in the 13th century was the attitude to be taken toward Aristotle and the use to be made of his thought by theologians committed to a Christian view of the nature of God, man, and the universe. By the middle of the century the writings of Aristotle, for the most part unknown in the Latin West until the end of the 12th century, were readily available in Latin translation and were being taught in the arts faculties at universities in England, France, and Italy. In combination with the writings of Averroës, which were used to interpret Aristotle, this new intellectual material provided the early 13th century with the developed, integrated philosophical …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Thomas Aquinas (trans. 1931; rev. ed. 1958). The best work on the background of Thomas's writings is Marie Dominique Chenu, Towards Understanding Saint Thomas (1950; trans. 1964).For a survey of Thomas's thought the following works are all of high quality, although each takes a somewhat different approach: Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Reality: A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought (trans. 1950); Frederick Copleston, Aquinas (1955); and Étienne Henry Gilson, The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (trans. 1956). Among the works on Thomistic metaphysics, the following are especially helpful: Herman Reith, The Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas (1958); George Peter Klubertanz, St. Thomas Aquinas on Analogy: A Textual Analysis and Systematic Synthesis (1960); and Joseph Owens, An Elementary Christian Metaphysics (1963). One of the few works in English treating the political views of Thomas is Thomas Gilby, The Political Thought of Thomas Aquinas (1958). Jacques Maritain, Art and Scholasticism, with Other Essays (trans. 1930), is a recommended study of Thomas's esthetic theory.
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