Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts ... nearly 800 years after his birth. Aquinas is a giant of Western philosophy and theology, and for good reason.

“If you want to care about Thomas, then care about what he ... scholarship that preserved the classical Greek philosophy of Aristotle, Aquinas moved medieval European Christianity away from ...

Those two paths-unquestioning belief and unyielding disbelief ... In the Middle Ages, religious philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, Moses Maimonides, and Averroes began by doubting and used ...

Aquinas believed that human nature is essentially good, and that all humans are oriented towards perfection and good acts. Whatever man desires, he desires it under the aspect of good.

Thomas Aquinas's Questions on the passions form part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas's best-known work. This first standalone edition shows, through a translation that is both rigorously accurate and ...