Thomas Aquinas ( )

Saint Anselm ( ) “It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.”

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Hugh of Saint Victor ( ) “Learn everything, later you will see that nothing is superfluous.”

Saint Albert the Great ( )

Saint Dominic ( )

Thomas Aquinas had a joyful and world-affirming attitude toward his studies and how he saw them fitting into a life of faith.

Thomas Aquinas taught that the world must be good since God gave it its existence.

The rationality of Thomas Aquinas was always in a a certain tension with his mystical understanding.”

“… such things have been revealed to me that all that I have written seems to me as so much straw.”

Aquinas converted and baptized Aristotle, but at the same time Aquinas converted medieval Christianity to Aristotle and the values Aristotle represented.