Medieval
Thomas Aquinas
1225 – 1274 · Italy
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!”
Romans 11:33 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
A Dominican friar and philosopher, Aquinas spent his life fusing the logic of Aristotle with Christian theology in his massive Summa Theologica. After a mystical experience during Mass near the end of his life, he stopped writing, saying all he had written seemed like straw compared to what he had seen.
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