Limbo exists for unbaptized infants.
Afterlife / agree
Thomas Aquinas
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Dominican friar and Doctor of the Church; wrote Summa Theologica, synthesizing Aristotelian philosophy with Christian doctrine.
Theological Positions
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Prayers for the dead can help them.
Afterlife / stronglyAgree
Soul sleep occurs between death and resurrection.
Afterlife / disagree
The intermediate state is conscious.
Afterlife / agree
There are degrees of reward in heaven.
Afterlife / stronglyAgree
Angels are real spiritual beings.
Angels & Demons / stronglyAgree
Christians can and should cast out demons.
Angels & Demons / agree
Satan is a real, personal being. Not just a symbol of evil or force.
Angels & Demons / stronglyAgree
The biblical Exodus involved approximately 2 million Israelites.
Archaeology & History / agree
The biblical giants (Nephilim) were real physical beings of extraordinary size.
Archaeology & History / agree
Writings
Commentary on Aristotle's Ethics
Scholastic commentary elucidating Aristotelian virtue ethics from a Christian perspective.
Source: Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
View WritingCommentary on the Gospel of John
Detailed scholastic commentary analyzing Johannine theology in light of Church tradition and philosophy.
Source: Commentary on the Gospel of John
View WritingCommentary on the Sentences
Early theological work commenting on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, establishing Aquinas’s foundational positions.
Source: Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
View WritingCompendium of Theology
Concise catechetical summary of theology composed late in Aquinas’s life (unfinished).
Source: Compendium of Theology
View WritingDisputed Questions on Truth
Series of academic questions examining the nature of truth, knowledge, and intellect.
Source: Disputed Questions on Truth (Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate)
View WritingOn the Unity of the Intellect
Treatise refuting Averroist doctrine of a single intellect and affirming individual immaterial souls.
Source: On the Unity of the Intellect Against the Averroists
View WritingSumma Contra Gentiles
Apologetic treatise using philosophical arguments to defend Christian doctrine before non-Christians.
Source: Summa Contra Gentiles
View WritingSumma Theologica
Comprehensive systematic theology covering God, creation, Christ, virtues, and sacraments, left unfinished at Aquinas’s death.
Source: Summa Theologica
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