One question has captivated the human imagination from the pre-Socratic Greeks to scientists working at Cern: how did the world begin? To understand how Thomas Aquinas approaches this question, we ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225/6–1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and a major figure – if not the major figure – in the scholastic tradition. He gave rise to the Thomistic school of philosophy, ...

His views on government, law, and economics would shake the system. Like Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas considered all areas of thought his province. As a result, he became unquestionably the most ...

Thomas Aquinas has had a long but, on the whole, not very happy history among Protestants. While some early Protestant reformers were well versed in Thomistic theology, Martin Luther was not among ...

(The Conversation) — Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, ...

Why read Thomas Aquinas? For Catholics and those interested in theology the answer is obvious, but his influence extends beyond that. He was one of the greatest medieval interpreters of Aristotle.

There is obviously much that can and should be mocked in all of this, but I won't go down that road. Instead, I would like to revisit a time when people knew how to have a public argument about the ...

Some years ago, I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the "Mona Lisa," when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, "The Triumph of St.