[ noun ] (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; presented philosophical proofs of the existence of God (1225-1274) <noun.person>
About 40 volumes date back to before the invention of moveable type in 1500. The oldest, printed in 1480, is by St. Thomas of Aquinas.
It is not as if, as in the repellent Heaven of Thomas Aquinas, the beatitude of the saved is heightened by the spectacle of the torments of the damned.
A thousand mourners began the service by walking a few blocks from St. Thomas Aquinas church, the parish of many of the victims.
"I told them Thomas Aquinas wasn't available at the moment," recalls Tarif Khalidi, an impish medieval historian, who then found himself and several colleagues hauled off to be interrogated instead.
"We have about three or four lively discussions a day, and we're still married," said longtime Republican John Teusink, 48, a biology professor at Aquinas College and a City Council member in this community north of Grand Rapids.
Just-war theory was formulated by Augustine, refined by Thomas Aquinas and Francisco de Vitoria, and developed in more or less its present form by Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), who is often called the father of international law.