Thomas Acquinas

He is the son of Landulph, count of Aquino, St. Thomas Aquinas was born circa in
Roccasecca, Italy, in the Kingdom of Sicily. had eight siblings, and was the youngest
child. His mother, Theodora, she was a countess of Teano. Though Thomas's family
members were descendants of Emperors Frederick I and Henry VI, they were considered
to be of lower nobility. St. Thomas Aquinas is described as a witty child who had
received a good soul and Aquinas was characterized as a humble, simple, peace-loving
man, given that he think deeply about something and a lover of poetry. He always
maintained self-control and won over his opponents by his personality and great learning.
There were various reports by friars and monks of minor miracles concerning Aquinas he
hear the voice of God. He refused to participate in mortification of the flesh, which as a
Dominican Friar he was supposed to observe. He also refused out of hand such a high
positions as Archbishop of Naples and Abbot of Monte Cassino. He is known for his
work lex inuista non est lex it means that an unjust law is not a law. He continues to
matter because he helps us with a problem which continues to give us trouble. What i like
about St. Thomas Aquinas is that he is a philosopher and a saint. He created a new
perspective of the place of reason about human life. Aquinass very important or extreme
contribution was to teach Western European civilization that any human being not just a
Christian could have a way to know about Gods greatest gift to human beings. Aquinas
believed that Jesus Christ was truly divine and not simply a human being or God who just
live in the body of Christ. However, he said that Christ had a truly feelings human soul as
well, producing a duality of natures that persisted even after the Incarnation, and that
these two natures existed simultaneously and noticeable in one real human body. He
generalize intelligence and opened the Christian eyes and mind to the insights or learning
of all of humanity from across the ages and across the world. Aquinas went to study at the
University of Paris, where he was a known to be a quiet student, but a great productive
author, he write nearly two hundred pieces about Christian theology in less than three
decades. And an important part of his work involves his commentaries on Sacred
Scripture and Aristotle. He is best known for his treatise "Summa Theologica" and the
"Summa contra Gentiles." he lived during the time when the Aristotelian corpus was
translated into Latin, which created a crisis concerning the relationship between faith and
reason. St, Thomas Aquinas proposed five positive statements about the divine qualities
or the nature of God:
God is simple, without composition of parts, such as body and soul, or matter and
form.
God is perfect, lacking nothing.
God is infinite, and not limited in the ways that created beings are physically,
intellectually, and emotionally limited.

 God is immutable, incapable of change in repect of essence and character.

God is one, such that God's essence is the same as God's existence.
Medieval Christian philosophy and education was characterized by Thomism, which
disputed questions and commentaries brought about by Aristotle. The academics of
medieval universities in Europe employed scholasticism as a primary method of teaching
and critical thought. He also became very popular and a very influential teacher, and at
the same time he was allowed by the Dominican leadership to make his own school in
Naples. it was his devotion to knowledge, even at the time of his death at the age of forty
nine, he is known to have been in the middle of delivering an extended commentary on
the Song of Songs. After St. Thomas Aquinas died, he was canonized in the Catholic
Church and is now the patron saint of teachers. One of Aquinas main intellectual
ambitions is to make the people understand what was right and wrong a far from
academic concern because, as a Christian, he wanted to know how a person could be sure
that their actions that would allow them to go to heaven. Aquinas was aware that many
ideas which is known to be extremely right were not the work of Christians. Though
Aquinas was a man of great faith, he therefore provided a philosophical framework for
the process of curiosity and open scientific inquiry. On a more personal level, he reminds
us that wisdom is the idea that we all need can come from multiple sources. Not only
from something that is known or understood without proof or evidence but also from
rationality, from science but also from revelation, from pagans but also from monks, hes
concern to all of these, he takes and uses whatever works, without caring where the ideas
come from. That sounds obvious, until we notice just how often we dont do this in our
own lives, how often we decide something that we dont think about or consider the
consequence of our action if an idea comes from an apparently wrong source, someone
with the wrong accent, a newspaper with a different political creed to ours, a prose style
that seems too complicated, or too simple. This is what i like about him he put God in
every move he makes in every learning that he was trying to imposed to us he put God in
the center of it.
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