Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

Umberto Eco's The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas identifies the three main characteristics of beauty in Aquinas's philosophy: integritas sive perfectio, consonantia sive debita proportio, and claritas sive splendor formae.

It was once taboo in Western society for women to wear clothing traditionally associated with men, except in certain circumstances such as for necessity ( as per St. Thomas Aquinas's guidelines in Summa Theologiae II ),

Norman Doe notes that St. Germain's view " is essentially Thomist ," quoting Thomas Aquinas's definition of law as " an ordinance of reason made for the common good by him who has charge of the community, and promulgated.

With the use of Scholasticism, Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica makes a structured treatment of the concept of will.

When Saint Thomas Aquinas's feast was inserted into the Roman calendar, for celebration on the same day, the two African saints were thenceforth only commemorated.

Pattison was at this time a Puseyite, and greatly under the influence of John Henry Newman, for whom he worked, helping in the translation of Thomas Aquinas's Catena Aurea, and writing in the British Critic and Christian Remembrancer.

* St Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, 2-2, q.

This literary movement ultimately made possible new sacred Latin verse, such as Thomas of Celano's Dies Iræ or St Thomas Aquinas's Pange Lingua, sequences written in Latin poetic forms the Goliards helped to develop.

Double-effect originates in Thomas Aquinas's treatment of homicidal self-defense, in his work Summa Theologiae.

The modern revival of Aquinas's thought can be traced to the work of mid-19th Century thomists, such as Thomas Zigliara, Josef Kleutgen, Gaetano Sanseverino, and Giovanni Maria Cornoldi.

According to historian Philip Schaff, it is a classic of theology at the level of Origen's On First Principles, Augustine's The City of God, Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica, and Schleiermacher's The Christian Faith.

This teaching goes back at least to Pope Julius I ( 337 – 352 ), who is quoted in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica as having declared that in case of necessity, but only then, juice pressed from a grape could be used.

Fortunatus is best known for two poems that have become part of the liturgy of the Catholic Church, the Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis (" Sing, O tongue, of the glorious struggle "), a hymn that later inspired St Thomas Aquinas's Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium.

In the West, Peter Lombard's 12th-century Sentences, in which he collected thematically a large series of quotations from the Church Fathers, became the basis of a medieval scholastic tradition of thematic commentary and explanation-best exemplified in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica.

Thomas Aquinas's claim rests chiefly on the " Summa ", which, of course, has principally influenced preaching since, both in matter and form.

Directly or indirectly, Dante came to read Saint Augustine's works, the De Consolatione Philosophiae by Boëthius, Saint Thomas Aquinas's works and some encyclopedic dictionaries like the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville and the Livre du Tresor by Brunetto Latini.

Support for tyrannicide can be found in Plutarch's Lives, Cicero's De Officiis, and Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.

While Aristotle became more influential than Plato in the 13th century, St. Thomas Aquinas's philosophy was still in certain respects fundamentally Platonic.

Her objective in the position is to undertake an extensive publishing program, which includes books on St. Thomas Aquinas's theory of justice and its relation to the current Darwinian trends, a critique of the rise of populism in Canada, an analysis of the liberal and conservative approaches to tradition ( Tradition and Taboo ), and a book on the relationship between Western liberalism and the growth of radical feminism.

He earned a third doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome in 1961. He compared St. Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy with the eighth-century Hindu philosopher Ādi Śańkara's Interpretation of the Brahma Sutras.

In Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, divine law, as opposed to natural law, comes only from revelation or scripture, hence biblical law, and is necessary for human salvation.

It was within one of these towers that the premiere of Thomas Tallis ' masterwork, Spem in alium was performed.

St Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica, II: II Quaestio 25, Article 4 states that we should love our neighbour more than our ourselves.

He was the first Jesuit to teach at the university, where the subject of his course was the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas.

St. Thomas Aquinas, a prominent doctor of the Catholic Church, was the first to write a full treatment of the relationship, differences, and similarities between faith — an intellectual assent — and reason, predominately in his Summa Theologica, De Veritate, and Summa contra Gentiles.

Summa Theologica, written by Thomas Aquinas in the second half of the 13th century, is a series of common questions about Christianity to which he wrote a series of replies.

This story is an allegory ; the android was primitive scholasticism, which was broken by the Summa of St Thomas, the daring innovator who first substituted the absolute law of reason for arbitrary divinity, by formulating that axiom which we cannot repeat too often, since it comes from such a master: " A thing is not just because God wills it, but God wills it because it is just.

Physico-theology is the term for a theology based on the constitution of the natural world, especially derived from perceived elements of " design ", which gave rise to the argument from design for the existence of God, beginning with the " fifth way " of the Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas ( d. 1274 ).

Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1225 – 1274 ), wrote Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles which both present various versions of the Cosmological argument and Teleological argument, respectively.

A century later, St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae I-II qq.

The Roman Catholic Church holds the view of natural law set forth by Thomas Aquinas, particularly in his Summa Theologica, and often as filtered through the School of Salamanca.

* Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

* Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles ( many editions ).

Huxley concludes that mescaline is not enlightenment or the Beatific Vision, but a ' gratuitous grace ' ( a term taken from St Thomas Aquinas ’ Summa Theologica ).

Saint Thomas Aquinas addressed ben Sirach -- and, by extension, Wittgenstein -- in the First Article, First Part, of his Summa Theologica:

Thomas Aquinas ( 1225-1274 ) presented a form of the teleological argument in his Summa Theologica.

* Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, Fathers of the English Dominican Province ( trans.

* 1265-Dominican friar and theologian, Thomas Aquinas begins to write his Summa Theologiae.

Several important cultural achievements were made in the decade, including publication of Roger Bacon's important scientific work Opus Majus and Thomas Aquinas ' Summa contra Gentiles.

* 1264 – Thomas Aquinas completes his theological work Summa contra Gentiles.

Thomas Aquinas completed his seminal work Summa Theologica late in 1273, and died in 1274.

* 1273 – December 6 – Saint Thomas Aquinas quits his writing of Summa Theologica — a work considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.

For instance, the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas ( 1225-1274 ) states that " it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many ".