An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the doctor angelicus and the doctor communis. Thomas of aquino was born in the early th century to a. Discours au lacademie pontificale saint thomas daquin 1965. Full text of the summa contra gentiles of saint thomas.
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