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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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“The fact that the evil, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit the fact that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement. They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so stubborn that even at the point of death their heart does not draw back from evil, it is possible to make a highly probable judgment that they would never come away from evil to the right use of their powers.”
AUTHOR: Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225
– 7 March 1274), also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican
priest of the Roman Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher
and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus
([the] Angelic Doctor), Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis.
"Aquinas" is not a surname, but is a Latin demonym for a resident of
Aquino, his place of birth. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural
theology, and the father of Thomism. His influence on Western thought is
considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived in development or
refutation of his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law,
metaphysics, and political theory. Thomas is held in the Catholic Church to be
the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. The works for which he
is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. As one of
the 33 Doctors of the Church, he is considered the Church's greatest theologian
and philosopher. Pope Benedict XV declared: "This (Dominican) Order ...
acquired new luster when the Church declared the teaching of Thomas to be her
own and that Doctor, honored with the special praises of the Pontiffs, the
master and patron of Catholic schools."
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