Thomas Aquinas, St.(C. 1224–1274) St. Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic theologian and philosopher, was born at Roccasecca, Italy, the youngest son of Landolfo and Teodora of Aquino. At about the age of five he began his elementary studies under the...

THOMAS AQUINAS (Tommaso d'Aquino, 1225–1274), Italian Dominican theologian, doctor of the church, patron of Roman Catholic schools, and Christian saint. One of the most important and influential scholastic theologians, Thomas is seen by...

(born 1224/25, Roccasecca, near Aquino, Terra di Lavoro, Kingdom of Sicily—died March 7, 1274, Fossanova, near Terracina, Latium, Papal States; canonized July 18, 1323; feast day January 28, formerly March 7) Italian Dominican theologian, the...

Thomas of Aquino (ca. 1225–1274), a philosopher and theologian, was born into an aristocratic family at Roccasecca, near Naples, Italy. He joined the Dominican order in 1245, taking a licentia docendi at Paris in 1256. He later taught at Paris,...

. (ca. 1224–1274). The only medieval philosopher whose ideas command an active following in the 20th century. The symmetry of Thomas’s methodical synthesis of traditional Christian (Augustinian and Platonist) theology with Aristotelian...

c. 1225-1274 Italian Philosopher The writings of Thomas Aquinas represent the pinnacle of medieval Scholasticism, a school of thought that attempted to bring together Christian faith, classical learning, and knowledge of the world. In his life's...

St Thomas Aquinas (1225–74) was one of the earliest Western thinkers to merge Aristotelian philosophy into the Christian political and philosophical heritage. Aquinas was primarily a theologian, but his writings had political significance since...

(born 1224/25, Roccasecca, near Aquino, Terra di Lavoro, Kingdom of Sicily—died March 7, 1274, Fossanova, near Terracina, Latium, Papal States; canonized July 18, 1323; feast day January 28, formerly March 7) Foremost philosopher and theologian...

, c. 1224–74. He came from Aquino, near Naples, and worked at the University of Paris and elsewhere. His work largely consisted in continuing the efforts of his teacher ALBERT THE GREAT to reconcile Greek philosophy with Christianity, and he was...

The leading medieval economic and social thinker and theologian, the most prominent of the Schoolmen. His interpretation of the teaching of ARISTOTLE and the early Christian Fathers is set out in his massive Summa Theologica. He expounded the doctrine...

For other uses, see Aquinas (disambiguation) Aquinas viewed theology, or the sacred doctrine, as a science, the raw material data of which consists of written scripture and the tradition of the Catholic church. These sources of data were produced by the...