Thomas Aquinas

When young Thomas joined the new Dominican order against his noble family's wishes, they kidnapped him and locked him in a castle for a year. He spent the time memorizing Scripture and studying Aristotle. They called him the 'Dumb Ox' because he was large, quiet, and slow to speak, but when he did speak, his arguments were devastating. Thomas faced a crisis: the rediscovery of Aristotle's complete works through Arabic translations threatened to split faith from reason. Many wanted to ban Aristotle; Thomas chose instead to baptize him. His Summa Theologiae, meant as a 'brief' textbook for beginners, became the most comprehensive synthesis of Christian thought ever written: thousands of articles, each beginning with objections he stated more forcefully than his opponents could, then systematically resolved. He wrote on God's existence, the nature of the soul, law, virtue, and the proper ordering of society.

Aquinas is best known as a philosopher. Medieval theologian and philosopher who synthesized Aristotelian reason with Christian doctrine into Scholastic method.

Aquinas lived 1225-1274 CE, born in 1225 and died in 1274, during the medieval period.

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