Aquinas made it clear from the very beginning of the Summa Theologiae how limited was the scope he assigned to natural theology. As Aquinas understood matters, natural theology could be pursued ...

For Aquinas the analogical principle does much to make natural theology possible—but it is a principle grounded in the nature of God as revealed in Scripture, and this is what makes Aquinas ...

Thomism is experiencing a renaissance in theology, but there’s a reason it’s controversial. To engage with the medieval Italian priest Thomas Aquinas (1224–74) is to approach one of history ...

However, Aquinas adds, “even if grace is more effective than nature, nonetheless nature is more essential for man” (Summa Theologiae, Ia, q, 29, a. 3), for whom, from the viewpoint of ...

For Aquinas, his spiritual doctrine and his theology are inextricably tied to one another. To conceive of the university and the church, for example, as wholly distinct from one another would ...

The title master of sacred theology, which dates back to 1303, was granted to him by Dominican Father Gerard Timoner, master of the order. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

This skull of St. Thomas Aquinas is making several stops for public veneration Nov. 29-Dec. 18, 2024, in Washington, D.C., as well as North Carolina, Rhode Island ...

The theory of natural rights — extrapolated from Aquinas — teaches that our rights are permanent claims against the whole world that no one, not even government, can take away.

Between the ancient world and modernity stands St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), a Dominican priest. ... Thomas was a major proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism, ...