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Dominican theologian and philosopher · 1225–1274 · Faith & Spirituality
Brought Aristotle into Christian theology in a book of a million and a half words, then stopped writing after an experience he refused to describe.
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“All that I have written seems like straw to me.”
Aquinas, reported by his secretary Reginald of Piperno
Aquinas was born to a noble family near Aquino who locked him up for a year to stop him joining the newly founded Dominicans. He studied under Albertus Magnus, whose students nicknamed him the dumb ox for his silence and size. At a time when the rediscovered works of Aristotle were suspect in Paris, he argued that reason and revelation could not truly conflict, and built the Summa Theologiae around structured objections and replies — including the five ways of arguing for God's existence. In December 1273, after saying Mass, he stopped work, telling his secretary that everything he had written seemed like straw. He died three months later.
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