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On the feast of St. Nicholas in 1273, Italian Dominican Friar Thomas Aquinas entered a chapel in Naples to say Mass before beginning a day of lecturing and writing. During the Mass, something profound happened to him: some kind of physical or nervous breakdown, perhaps accompanied by an overpowering mystical...
Just two decades ago, St. Thomas Aquinas was the darling of Roman Catholic thought, a man so revered that he was the only philosopher actually named in the church's 1918 code of canon law. The code declared that his "method, doctrine and principles" were to be the foundation...
Font of Truth. Catholic Theologian David Tracy, writing in a recent issue of the Christian Century, recalls the period somewhat ruefully: "Has Einstein spoken? Fine, but really-if you look hard and long enough, it's all there in Aquinas. Are you looking for an aesthetic or political theory...
Novak and other admirers cite Thomas' present-day usefulness in varying ways. A number of prominent ethicists, for example, find considerable relevance in such concepts as his understanding of moral habits and his conviction that acts must be consistent with the essence of human "being." Along with Aquinas'...
Yet Thomas' defenders point out inevitable weaknesses in his work-poor texts of the Scriptures to work with, for instance, and none of the resources of archaeology or linguistic tools available today. More basically, Evangelical Philosopher Ronald H. Nash, writing in Christianity Today, takes issue with Aquinas' concept...