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 ...

Like Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas looked back to a heroic age, an age when courage was a defining and unequivocally glorious Christian virtue. In the Roman Empire persecution was the ultimate test of ...

Aristotle thought deeply about friendship. I am, of course, aware that this statement seems as astonishing as declaring that the sun rose this morning. After all, St. Thomas Aquinas refers to ...

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 ...