St. Thomas Aquinas

Dominican friar and Doctor of the Church. The Angelic Doctor, preeminent theologian of Scholasticism. Among the scholars who used Jerome's version of Scripture exclusively.

Works

• Summa Theologica

Preliminaries

• PREFACE TO THE READER (1) — Listed among scholars who used Jerome's version

  "Albert, Thomas, Bonaventure"

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — Teaches in Summa Theologica I, q.1, a.1, that revealed doctrine is necessary both for supernatural and natural truths

  "St. Thomas teaches that Sacred Scripture treats even the first order of natural things, right at the very threshold of the Summa Theologica"

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — With St. Thomas, the second and third orders (grace, divinity) are unknown to philosophers

  "everyone sees with St. Thomas that these were unknown to the philosophers"

• Chapter II: On the Object and Breadth of Sacred Scripture — Things in the First Part concerning God's essence, predestination, angels, creation derived from Scripture

  "Thus those things which are treated in the First Part... by St. Thomas and the Scholastics"

• Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — The Angelic Doctor; purity consecrated him; at death said to Reginald he obtained purity of mind and knowledge of his brother's state

  "This purity consecrated St. Thomas the Angelic Doctor"

• Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — Prince of Scholastic Theology and most versed in Scriptures; when expounding sacred books employed prayer and fasting

  "St. Thomas, the prince of Scholastic Theology and most versed in the Scriptures"

• The Fathers' Defense of the Old Testament — Gave illustrious example of joining Scholastic theology with Scripture; wrote commentaries on Prophets, Canticles, Job, Genesis

  "St. Thomas, the prince of the Scholastics, gave us an illustrious example"

• Peroration and Conclusion of Section One — From Christ on the cross heard "You have written well of me, Thomas"; responded "No other than You, Lord"

  "Who, if like St. Thomas he has sent a farewell to the world, and from Christ on the cross hears:"

Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses

• Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch — Cites and follows Augustine on multiple literal senses; Summa Theologiae I, q. 1, art. 10

  "whom St. Thomas cites and follows (Summa Theologiae I, q. 1, art. 10, in the body)"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• He Created — Cited from Part I, question 61, art. 5, on creation from nothing

  "For, as St. Thomas teaches, Part I, question 61, art. 5, the universal emanation of all things could only have come from nothing."

• Verse 3: And God said: Let there be light — Cited for the view that light was the sun itself still unformed

  "Whence St. Thomas says this light was the sun itself, still unformed and imperfect."

• Verse 9: Let the waters be gathered together — Cited for the view that the sea was made higher than the earth

  "Basil, Burgensis, Catharinus, and St. Thomas think that the sea was here separated from the earth"

• Verse 11: Let the earth bring forth — Cited from Part I, Question LXX, article 1, on God producing all plants suddenly

  "God by Himself alone actively and efficaciously, and indeed suddenly, produced all plants and vegetation; and these of proper and perfect size, as St. Thomas teaches, I part, Question LXX, article 1."

• Verse 20: Let the Waters Bring Forth — Cited from Part I, Question 71, article 1, on fish from denser water and birds from rarer

  "St. Thomas, Part I, Question 71, article 1"

• Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Cited from Part I, Question 69, article 1, reply 2, on carnivorous animals before sin

  "So St. Thomas, Part I, Question 69, article 1, reply 2"

• Verse 26: Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Likeness — Cited alongside Basil for the view on faciamus; the Council of Sirmium cited by Hilary

  "So St. Basil, Rupert, and others cited above"

• Verse 28: Increase and Multiply — Cited for the view that the precept of procreation is given to the species, not individuals

  "So says St. Thomas."

• Heaven and Earth: Four Interpretations — His view noted on the Lateran Council's words

  "Although Saint Thomas and some others think these words can be taken otherwise"

• Introduction — Distinguished from "Thomas the Doctor" (Thomas of York); his Summa used commonly

  "Thomas the Doctor also wrote -- not the holy Angelic Doctor, but the English one, namely the Doctor of York"

Related

• St. Jerome
• St. Albert the Great