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In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology.

Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotles rational world view and by the powerful belief that wisdom and truth can ultimately only be reached through divine revelation. Thomass writings, which contain highly influential statements of fundamental Christian doctrine, as well as observations on topics as diverse as political science, anti-Semitism and heresy, demonstrate the great range of his intellect and place him firmly among the greatest medieval philosophers.

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Thomas Aquinas
SELECTED WRITINGS
Edited and Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Ralph Mcinerny
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THOMAS AQUINAS: SELECTED WRITINGS

St Thomas Aquinas was born around 1225 at Roccasecca near Aquino, to the nobleman Landulf of Aquino. Educated by Benedictine monks at Monte Cassino and then at the University of Naples, it was during his time at university, around 1244, that he joined the Dominican monastic order. This decision so shocked the other members of his noble family that they kidnapped him and held him against his will for a year. Despite this, he remained committed to the religious life and, once he was free, Aquinas went to Cologne to study under St Albert the Great. In 1256 he took the degree of Master in Theology, and then embarked on a life of teaching, preaching and writing, living and working in France and Italy. He died from an illness at the abbey of Fossanuova while on his way to attend a meeting of the general council at Lyon in 1274. Thomas Aquinas was formally canonized in 1323.

Aquinas religious writing has had a significant influence on both theological and philosophical thought through the centuries. His two great works are Summa contra Gentiles (125964), a treatise on God and his creation, and Summa theologica (126673), a massive, though unfinished, work, designed as a complete systematic exposition of theology.

Ralph Mcinerny is the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is a fellow of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and has published several works on the thought of Thomas, most recently Aquinas and Analogy (1996) and Ethica Thomistica (1997).

Chronology

1200

Charter of the University of Paris
Coronation of Emperor Frederick II

1210

Prohibition against lecturing on Aristotle at Paris

1215

Founding of the Order of Preachers
Council of Lateran
First statutes of University of Paris
Magna Carta

1217

Founding of Dominican house of St James in Paris

1224

Founding of the University of Naples

1225

Thomas Aquinas born at Roccasecca

123039

Thomas at Monte Cassino

1231

Lifting of ban on Aristotle at Paris

123944

Thomas a student at University of Naples

1240

Works of Averroes become known

124048

Albert the Great comments on Aristotle at Paris
Roger Bacon comments on Aristotle

1244

Thomas joins the Dominicans, the Order of Preachers
Detained by family for a year in an effort to dissuade him
from being a Dominican

1245

Released by family

12458

Thomas a student at Paris under Albert the Great

1248

Albert founds faculty of theology at Cologne

124852

Thomas student and assistant of Albert at Cologne

124854

Crusade of St Louis

124855

Bonaventure teaches at Paris

1250

Death of Frederick II

125051

Thomas ordained priest

12526

Thomas Bachelor of the Sentences at Paris

1256

Thomas is named master of theology

12569

Regent master at Paris

1257

Thomas and Bonaventure acknowledged by other Paris masters

125968

Thomas in Italy

1263

William of Moerbeke, fellow Dominican, translates
Aristotle directly from Greek

1264

Thomas composes the liturgy for the feast of Corpus Christi

126670

Averroist controversy at Paris

126872

Thomas regent master at Paris for second time

1270

Condemnation of Latin Averroism

1272

Thomas named regent master at Naples

1273

On 6 December Thomas stops writing

1274

On way to Council of Lyons in February Thomas falls ill, is taken to Fossanova where he dies on 7 March
Letter from the faculty of arts to the master general of the Dominicans

1276

Roman de la Rose

1277

Condemnation at Paris of 219 propositions; Thomas comes under posthumous cloud
At Oxford, Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury and Dominican, condemns propositions of Thomistic inspiration

1284

John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury and Franciscan, who had been resident in Paris during Thomass second regency, confirms condemnations of his predecessor

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