How To Use Thomas aquinas In A Sentence
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The philosophical and theological system developed by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century.
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In summary, Mr. Woods, I think St. Thomas Aquinas would not consider your cause unjust.
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Dietrich's De Ente Et Essentia which bears the same title as Thomas Aquinas' opuscule is indeed a work that gives much evidence of having been prepared as a kind of rebuttal to certain doctrines of Aquinas.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas,4 using the terminology of the philosophical tradition to which he belonged, explains it as follows: faith is a habitus, that is, a stable disposition of the spirit, through which eternal life takes root in us and reason is led to consent to what it does not see.
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The Dominican theologians St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas, although they do not count beauty among the transcendentals, make a similar discourse in their commentaries on the Treaty of Pseudo-Dionysius De divinis nominibus, where the universality of beauty emerges, whose first cause is God Himself.
Fr Lang on Beauty and the Liturgy
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St Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian who shaped society's thinking on the deadly sins, rated pride as the worst of all.
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Is there something in the teachings of Thomas Aquinas that I can explain to you, goodmen?
Heartfire
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Medieval metaphysics in particular Thomas Aquinas focused on the whatness or quidditas as the subject of ontology, but this is already a significant narrowing of the horizon of the original Aristotelean definition which leaves open many ways of thinking to proceed INCLUDING the possibility of not giving Whatness the priority, let alone the exclusive signification, among the various possible meanings of being.
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None of these interpretations quite captures Bonaventure's relation to these three philosophers or his own approach to the relations among reason, faith, and theology, because they implicitly employed a Thomistic model for being an Aristotelian, with the result that Bonaventure's failures derive from his not being the kind of Aristotelian Thomas Aquinas was.
Amputee
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St Thomas Aquinas had an arrangement of angels - they ranged from angels, archangels and so on up to seraphims.
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Dietrich's De ente et essentia which bears the same title as Thomas Aquinas 'opuscule is indeed a work that gives much evidence of having been prepared as a kind of rebuttal to certain doctrines of Aquinas.
Dietrich of Freiberg
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Without the technology of printing today, we would not have easy access to the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica defining the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude.
Clarence B. Jones: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Challenge to Dream
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St. Thomas Aquinas says of the gift of wisdom that it instills that virtue whereby we habitually "judge and order all things in accordance with divine norms and with a connaturality that flows from loving union with God.
The splendor of the firmament
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St. Thomas Aquinas makes use of the terms sacra and sacramentalia (Summa
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Thomas Aquinas, and its greatest poet, Dante Alighieri.
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Idioms of feudal law also applied to royal jurisdiction and government, which is why St Thomas Aquinas, the leading scholastic thinker of the High Middle Ages, debated the powers of monarchy in this vein.
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However, the church was not always against the stage, even in those early times, as St. Thomas Aquinas says that "The office of the player as being serviceable for the enlivenment of men, and as not being blameworthy if the player leads an upright life.
A History of Pantomime
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Even Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century decided that the mind must function primarily as intellect, abstracting itself from presence, to focus upon an ‘other’ that is external- ‘out there,’ whether that be called nature or God.
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The fruit was carnal knowledge, and everybody from Thomas Aquinas to Milton knew it.
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Vindication, according to Thomas Aquinas the translation of vindicatio as 'vengeance' is not particularly good, but it does a little better than 'vindication' at indicating the forcefulness the Latin word conveys, is an important virtue associated with justice.
Vindication
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You did mention Saint Thomas Aquinas, patron of the university, and you know he would have syllogized your argument right into the dust bin and has with his Summa Theologica.
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It was that polemic which resounded through the ages; its shockwaves can still be felt in later thinkers like Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) and Zabarella (1533-1589) who carefully examined, though in the end rejected, Philoponus 'anti-eternalist arguments.
John Philoponus
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A Cordelier has no hesitation in applying the epithet of blasphemer to a Dominican who says that the Holy Virgin was born in original sin, notwithstanding that the Dominicans have a bull from the pope which permits them to teach the maculate conception in their convents, and that, besides this bull, they have in their forum the express declaration of St. Thomas Aquinas.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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However, occasionalism was already an old doctrine at the time that Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote against it.
Nicolas Malebranche
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Empiricists like Locke and rationalists like Newton lacked the rich ontology of Thomas Aquinas and the medieval schoolmen.
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Sir Thomas Aquinas: ‘The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.’
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His theological lodestar is Augustine, not Thomas Aquinas.
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Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican friar, and a theological giant.
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To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
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St. Thomas Aquinas, a medieval theologian , tried to reconcile Aristotle's philosophy of natural law with Christianity.
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Following the lead of one Thomas Aquinas, it was thought that the unicorn probably had attributes of both: thus he was pictured as being a goat with a horse's head, or having cleft hooves before and solid hooves behind.
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The James translation became the Vulgate, and the translation done for Thomas Aquinas by William Moerbeke never received much usage.
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Thomas Aquinas; believed the earth to be round; a pioneer of natural sciences.
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As St Thomas Aquinas, no lightweight himself, put it, ‘gluttony denotes inordinate concupiscence in eating’.
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Taking a stand as a theologian and spokesman of theocracy, Thomas Aquinas argued on some important socioeconomic issues.
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Even Thomas Aquinas was a stowaway, as the Spaniards smuggled his scholasticism and rigid conceptions of social hierarchy into the Americas.
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Aegidius of Colonna was a disciple of St. Thomas Aquinas, and founded the school of theology known as the Augustinian, which was divided into an earlier and a later.
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