Month: August 2024

The influences of Plato, and of the wide variety of ancient, Arabic, and medieval Platonisms, on Aquinas must be distinguished from what he knows about them. The first are pervasive, persistent, and ever increasing. The second change markedly as he reads more of the commentaries and treatises of the Hellenic Neoplatonists and Peripatetics during the…

Obviously, the vast majority of people being illiterate, Aquinas could only be known indirectly to most during the High Middle Ages. Notwithstanding this impediment, even an uneducated commoner could meet with Aquinas’s infl uence in two venues: fi rst, in the confessional booth; second, in public lectures. Aquinas influenced Dante: The most likely point of…

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Article Michael Gorman explains Thomas Aquinas’ view that Christ is a composite person and the role of the notion of Christ’s compositiveness in Aquinas’ solutions to a range of Christological problems.

When Islam entered the sophisticated world of the Byzantine empire, the works of Plato and of Aristotle were made available to them by virtue of Syriac translators from Greek into Arabic (Richard Walzer , Greek into Arabic: Essays in Islamic Philosophy (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1962). Of the works of Plato, it was…

GENERAL THEOLOGICAL TREATISES DISPUTED QUESTIONS BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE OTHER COMMENTARIES POLEMICAL WRITINGS TREATISES AND OTHER WORKS ON ASSORTED TOPICS & LITURGICAL AND RELATED WORKS

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