Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters
1545. The city of Trento, in today’s northern Italy. The Council of Trent. The Bible was placed on the altar. Next to it, the officials put Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica to symbolize the Catholic Church’s reverence for the Saint’s work, the greatest of the Catholic philosophers and Scholastics.
It may have been his high watermark. Less than 200 years …
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