Aquinas

Examples

• All

• And I will be talking about Thomas Aquinas's views on anger.

• At the heart of philosophical wisdom for Aquinas is esse commune.

  Academic text (2008)

• So, for example, Thomas Aquinas has a whole theory of truth.

• Of woman, Thomas Aquinas knew precious little.

  The Name of the Rose (1986)

• I would like to talk to you about Thomas Aquinas.

  End of Days (1999)

• Do you know a priest by the name of Thomas Aquinas ?

  End of Days (1999)

• You're not gonna quote Thomas Aquinas again?

  Love and Death (1975)

• Philosophical wisdom is therefore, for Aquinas, the speculative knowledge of being in general, related to God who is its cause.

  Academic text (2008)

• Saint Thomas Aquinas is the primary orthodox theologian of Catholicism.

  Big Think

• Drawing upon an argument from Aquinas, Vitoria believes that this action is obligatory.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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A medieval Italian thinker who used reason to explain Christian faith and argue that God exists

does not use the saint title and prefers the bare surname form

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St. Thomas

vsAquinas

1 7.3

A priest and teacher from the 1200s who used reason to explain Christian beliefs

uses only the surname rather than the shortened titled personal form

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Thomas Aquinas

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• Formal

7.7

A 13th-century Italian priest and thinker who argued that faith and reason agree

uses only the surname form rather than the full personal name

S

Saint Thomas Aquinas

vsAquinas

8.1

An Italian Catholic thinker who tried to connect faith and reason

uses only the short surname without the saint title or scholasticism emphasis

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Saint Thomas

vsAquinas

8.4

A medieval Christian thinker who used reason to explain faith and argue that God exists

uses only the short surname and does not include the saint phrase

Surface Forms

Etymology