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, ...

Like Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas considered all areas of thought his province. As a result, he became unquestionably the most systematic political philosopher of the Middle Ages, as well as an original ...

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 ...

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.

“Saint Thomas Aquinas” by G. K. Chesterton, the author of fiction and nonfiction books, including the famous Father Brown murder mysteries, wrote this comparatively short history of the Italian Roman ...

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 ...

During his general audience on June 16, Pope Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on the Christian culture of the Middle Ages, specifically focusing on the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. The Holy ...

"He was the world's flower and glory, and has rendered superfluous the writings of doctors (of theology) who shall come after him." St. Albert the Great is said to have exclaimed these words upon the ...