St. Thomas Aquinas

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Catholic saint Catholic theologian Christian theologian Doctor of the Church Dominican friar human metaphysician moral philosopher philosopher scholastic philosopher

St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13th-century Dominican friar, theologian, and philosopher whose synthesis of Christian doctrine with Aristotelian philosophy made him one of the most influential thinkers in Western intellectual and religious history.

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Statements (87)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic saint → Catholic theologian → Christian theologian → Doctor of the Church → Dominican friar → human → metaphysician → moral philosopher → philosopher → scholastic philosopher →
birthName	Tommaso d'Aquino →
burialPlace	Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse →
canonizationDate	1323 →
canonizationStatus	canonized saint →
canonizedBy	Pope John XXII →
centuryOfActivity	13th century →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Sicily →
dateOfBirth	1225 →
dateOfDeath	1274-03-07 →
declaredDoctorOfTheChurchBy	Pope Pius V →
declaredDoctorOfTheChurchDate	1567 →
educatedAt	Studium of Cologne → University of Naples → University of Paris →
era	High Middle Ages →
familyName	Aquinas →
feastDay	January 28 →
fieldOfWork	ethics → metaphysics → natural theology → philosophy → philosophy of religion → political philosophy → theology →
givenName	Thomas →
honorificPrefix	Saint →
honorificSuffix	O.P. →
influenced	Catholic Church → Jacques Maritain → Joseph Ratzinger → Karl Rahner → Thomism → neo-Thomism → Étienne Gilson →
influencedBy	Albertus Magnus → Aristotle → Augustine of Hippo → Boethius → Maimonides → Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite →
knownFor	distinction between essence and existence → doctrine of analogy of being → five ways to prove the existence of God → just war theory contributions → natural law theory → synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology →
languageOfWorkOrName	Latin →
memberOf	Dominican Order → Order of Preachers →
notableWork	Commentaries on Aristotle → Commentary on the Sentences → De ente et essentia → De veritate → Summa Theologiae → Summa contra Gentiles →
occupation	Catholic priest → philosopher → theologian → university teacher →
patronage	Catholic schools → Catholic universities → philosophers → students → theologians →
philosophicalSchool	Scholasticism → Thomism →
placeOfBirth	Kingdom of Sicily → Roccasecca →
placeOfDeath	Fossanova Abbey → near Priverno →
region	Western philosophy →
religion	Catholicism →
studentOf	Albertus Magnus →
taughtAt	Dominican studia → University of Paris →
tradition	Christian philosophy → Latin Church →

Referenced by (80)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Al-Ghazali ("Thomas Aquinas") → Anselm of Canterbury ("Thomas Aquinas") → Aristotle ("Thomas Aquinas") → Augustine of Hippo ("Thomas Aquinas") → Averroes ("Thomas Aquinas") → Avicenna ("Thomas Aquinas") → Boethius ("Thomas Aquinas") → Cicero ("Thomas Aquinas") → Gregory of Nazianzus ("Thomas Aquinas") → John of Damascus ("Thomas Aquinas") → Maimonides ("Thomas Aquinas") → Metaphysics (Aristotle) ("Thomas Aquinas") → Nicomachean Ethics ("Thomas Aquinas") → On Free Choice of the Will ("Thomas Aquinas") → On the Soul ("Thomas Aquinas") → Plato ("Thomas Aquinas") → Platonism ("Thomas Aquinas") → Politics ("Thomas Aquinas") → Saint Dominic ("Thomas Aquinas") → St. Augustine ("Thomas Aquinas") → The City of God ("Thomas Aquinas") → The City of God ("Thomas Aquinas") →	influenced
Alvin Plantinga ("Thomas Aquinas") → Charles Hartshorne ("Thomas Aquinas") → Dante Alighieri ("Thomas Aquinas") → Desiderius Erasmus ("Thomas Aquinas") → Divine Comedy ("Thomism") → Duns Scotus ("Thomas Aquinas") → Elizabeth Anscombe ("Thomas Aquinas") → Francisco Suárez ("Thomas Aquinas") → Francisco de Vitoria ("Thomas Aquinas") → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ("Thomas Aquinas") → Hugo de Groot ("Thomas Aquinas") → Jacques Maritain ("Thomas Aquinas") → Karl Rahner ("Thomas Aquinas") → Letter from Birmingham Jail → Marsilio Ficino ("Thomas Aquinas") → Mortimer Adler ("Thomas Aquinas") → Murray Rothbard ("Thomas Aquinas") → Nicolas Malebranche ("Thomas Aquinas") → Pico della Mirandola ("Thomas Aquinas") → The Perennial Philosophy ("Thomas Aquinas") → Theodicy ("Thomas Aquinas") → Theology of the Body ("Thomas Aquinas") →	influencedBy
Commentaries on Aristotle ("Thomas Aquinas") → Commentary on the Sentences ("Thomas Aquinas") → De ente et essentia ("Thomas Aquinas") → De veritate ("Thomas Aquinas") → Summa Theologiae ("Thomas Aquinas") → Summa contra Gentiles ("Thomas Aquinas") → five ways to prove the existence of God ("Thomas Aquinas") →	author
On Interpretation ("Aquinas") → On the Soul ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasCommentaryBy
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ("Thomas Aquinas") → University of Santo Tomas ("Thomas Aquinas") →	namedAfter
St. Thomas Aquinas ("Tommaso d'Aquino") →	birthName
Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse ("Thomas Aquinas") →	burialPlaceOf
Just war theory ("Thomas Aquinas") →	developedBy
St. Thomas Aquinas ("Aquinas") →	familyName
Christian ethics ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasHistoricalFigure
Perpetual Virginity of Mary ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasHistoricalProponent
Western philosophy ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasKeyFigure
Scholastic theology ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasMajorFigure
Roccasecca ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasNotablePerson
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasPatron
Roccasecca ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasPatronSaint
Roccasecca ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hasSaint
Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse ("Thomas Aquinas") →	housesRelicsOf
Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ ("Thomas Aquinas") →	hymnAuthor
Doctor of the Church →	includes
Étienne Gilson ("Thomas Aquinas") →	influenced by
Guide for the Perplexed ("Thomas Aquinas") →	influenceOn
Commentary on the Sentences ("Thomas Aquinas") →	isEarlyWorkOf
Étienne Gilson ("Thomas Aquinas") →	main interest
Aristotelianism ("Thomas Aquinas") →	majorFigure
Fossanova Abbey ("Thomas Aquinas") →	notablePersonDiedHere
Albert the Great ("Thomas Aquinas") →	notableStudent
Dominican friars ("Thomas Aquinas") →	notableTheologianTradition
Tritheism ("Thomas Aquinas") →	opposedBy
Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ ("Saint Thomas Aquinas") →	promotedBy