St. Thomas Aquinas Influence On The Catholic Church

There has been discussion lately questioning the history of Christianity and how the Catholic Church has developed. St. Thomas Aquinas was an Italian philosopher and theologian of the medieval period born in 1225 in Italy who was a significant mover and shaker. So what was his role in the changing church, how did he use his influence, what change occurred as a result and where is the Church now as a result?

Tomas Aquinas had a role and also an influence in the Catholic Church. He was a philosopher and theologian and he used his role to create change in the Catholic Church. He was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was a greatly influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Communes. Thomas Aquinas is hailed as the Church's best theologian and philosopher.

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He got here today because of his influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.

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This paragraph is about Tomas Aquinas’s church and where it is today. Today his church is called St Lucia which is founded by Thomas Aquinas when Tomas Aquinas was born in 1225 the church was in Brisbane and it is still in Brisbane today. The Catholic Church honours Thomas Aquinas as a saint and regards him as the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. Anthony Kenny who is the English philosopher considers Thomas Aquinas to be one of the dozen greatest philosophers of the western world. And that is how he steered the church to where it is today (he gained peoples