Treatise on Sacred Doctrine (Q[1])
Paris · 1274
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Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
1225 CE–1274 CE · Roccasecca
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) was born near Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily and, against his family's wishes, joined the Dominican Order while studying at the University of Naples. He pursued his philosophical formation under Albert the Great in Paris and Cologne, then spent decades teaching at Paris and various Italian centers, producing the Summa Theologiae — the definitive scholastic synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotelian philosophy. He died at Fossanova in 1274 while traveling to the Second Council of Lyon, and was canonized in 1323.
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Stop 1 of 81225–1230Birthplace, Noble Family
RoccaseccaItaly
What they did here
Born c. 1225 at the family castle of Roccasecca, near Aquino, in the Kingdom of Sicily, the youngest son of Count Landulf of Aquino.
About Roccasecca
Roccasecca, a hilltop town in southern Lazio, central Italy. Thomas Aquinas was born at the family castle there c. 1225.
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In the same tradition
Pope Urban IV, Albert the Great, Pope Honorius IV, Bonaventure, Pope Nicholas III
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Works(13)
Prologue
Paris · 1274
Treatise on the Angels (qq[50]-64)
Paris · 1274
Treatise on The Creation (QQ[44-46])
Paris · 1274
Treatise on The Distinction of Things In General (Q[47])
Paris · 1274
Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
Paris · 1274
Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)
Paris · 1274
Treatise on The Most Holy Trinity (QQ[27-43])
Paris · 1274
Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
Paris · 1274
Treatise on the Work of the Six Days (qq[65]-74)
Paris · 1274
Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
Paris · 1274
Treatise on the Conservation and Government of Creatures (qq[103]-119)
Paris · 1274
Treatise on The Distinction of Good And Evil (Q[48-49])
Paris · 1274