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Nickname: ''Dumb Ox'' For his queit manner and huge size
Thomas Aquinas was born in 13th Century(High Middle Ages) approximately 1225 to a noble family in Roccasecca, Italy . As a child, his brilliant mind was already asking his Benedictine teachers about God's nature. Against the feirce opposition of his family, at eighteen he joined the relatively new Dominican Order, which had become known for it's quality of preachers and teachers. Thomas studied under the brilliant St. Albert the Great University of Cologne. After ordination, Thomas received his doctoral degree at the University of Paris. He then embarked on an untiring life of teaching and preaching. But it was his writing that made him a marvel in his own day and the genius theologian of the Catholic Church for all time.
Thomas Aquinas' accomplishment in life was to teach and preach his writings to the church even though while writing it made him very frustrated and tired while successing in his work.
''Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. ''
Born: 1225 Died: 1274
Thomas Aquinas (Doctor of the Church)
''I can do more. Such secrets have been revealed to me that all i have written now appears to be a little value'' - Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas was a priest, professor and philosopher who influenced centuries of religious and academic thought with his methodical way of balancing faith and reason. In the Church,the esteem in which he was held during his life has not been weakened, but rather increased, in the course of the six centuries that have forgotten since his death. Outside the church some people have been and are still opposed to everything that comes under the name of Scholasticism, which they hold to be identical with subtleties and useless discussions. From the prologue to the ''Summa'' it is clear that St. Thomas was opposed to all that was superfluous and confusing in Scholastic studies. When people understand what true Scholasticism means, their doubts should stop.
