The work is mammoth. It is also intricately arranged, akin to the structure of a medieval cathedral. Like Chartes, a tour of the Summa can be daunting initially. Bernard McGinn is a warm and ...

Late have I loved him—or later, at least, than a lot of people. I was 27 years old when I first sat down to read the work of St. Thomas Aquinas seriously. At that point, having grown up in the ...

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 ...

Most material on Aquinas gets very philosophical very quickly. This is unfortunate, as the first sight of a passage like “every essence or quiddity can be understood without knowing anything about its ...

In almost two millennia, only 37 saints received the title doctor of the church for their contributions to church teaching. Among them is Thomas Aquinas, who, additionally, has been awarded the titles ...

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 ...