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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 216. Chapters: Thomas Aquinas, Bartolome de las Casas, Martin Bucer, Giordano Bruno, Girolamo Savonarola, Meister Eckhart, Lope de Barrientos, Jacob Palaeologus, Clement of Dunblane, Fra Angelico, Servais-Theodore Pinckaers, Albertus Magnus, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Christoph Schonborn, Alonso de Montufar, Saint Dominic, Henry Denifle, John George Alleman, Tomas de Torquemada, Vincent of Beauvais, Edward Schillebeeckx, Pope Pius V, Thomas Gage (clergyman), Francisco J. Ayala, Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, Angel Martinez Casado, Domingo Banez, Jacobus de Voragine, Martin de Porres, Gaspar da Cruz, Vincent Ferrer, Henry Suso, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Gustavo Gutierrez, Vincent McNabb, Fray Martin de Murua, Laurence de Ergadia, Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, Munio of Zamora, Thomas Cajetan, Thomas (Bishop of Finland), Benedict Ashley, Nicholas Eymerich, Robert Kilwardby, John of Wildeshausen, Ludolph of Saxony, Nerses Balients, Fidel Villarroel, Louis Bertrand (saint), Marie-Alain Couturier, Theodoric of Freiberg, Tommaso Caccini, Pope Benedict XIII, Johannes Tauler, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, Roche MacGeoghegan, Raymond of Penyafort, Annio da Viterbo, Edward Fenwick, Francisco Varo, Giacinto Macripodari, Francis Ferdinand de Capillas, Ignazio Danti, Peter of Verona, Hugh of Saint-Cher, Andre de Longjumeau, Malcolm Patrick McMahon, Jean-Baptiste Labat, Anthony Fisher, Pietro Ranzano, Anthony della Chiesa, Rolando de la Rosa, William Everson, Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, Antoninus of Florence, Bartolo Longo, Ramon Marti, John Hilsey, Charles, 6th Prince of Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Diego Duran, John Dominici, Durandus of Saint-Pourcain, Fra Bartolomeo, Roland de Vaux, Tommaso Campanella, Francisco de Vitoria, Humbert of Romans, Gaspar de Carvajal, Aidan Nichols, Augustine Fangi, Yolanda of Vianden, Raymond of Capua, Theodore J. van den Broek, Antonio de Montesinos (Dominican friar), Juan de Espinosa Medrano, Diego Deza, Luis de Sousa, Jordan of Saxony, Andreas Franz Fruhwirth, Saint Hyacinth, Charles Morerod, Buenaventura Garcia de Paredes, Georges Cottier, Dominique Pire, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Giovanni Giocondo, Brian Davies (philosopher), Guerard des Lauriers, Louis of Granada, Jerome Inglott, Jordanus, Vicente Liem de la Paz, Juan de Torquemada (cardinal), Raimondo Spiazzi, Robert Bacon (writer), Mario Luigi Ciappi, Albert Nolan, Juan Solano, Angelo Portelli, Noel Alexandre, Francisco Coll Guitart, William of Moerbeke, Bartholomew of Braga, James Whelan (bishop), Martyrs of Gorkum, Yves Congar, John Macias, Jean-Louis Brugues, Wojciech Giertych, Anthony Neyrot, Bernard Gui, Georges-Henri Levesque. Excerpt: Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. ( -n s; 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, within which he is also known as the "Dumb Ox" "Angelic Doctor," Doctor Communis, and Doctor Universalis. "Aquinas" is the demonym of Aquino: Thomas came from one of the noblest families of the Kingdom of Naples, with the title of "counts of Aquino." 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, and indeed the highest expression of both natural reason and speculative theology. The study of his works, according to papal and magisterial documents, is a core of the required program of study for those seeking ordination as priests or deacons, as well as for those...
