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The writings of Thomas Aquinas
Summary: The book "Thomas Aquinas: Scholastic Theologian and the Creator of the Medieval Christian Synthesis" showed how, as a theologian, St. Aquinas shaped how Christians look at humankind as both natural and supernational. He also redefined the concepts of teaching and learning and how Christian faith shapes beliefs about other things.
"Thomas Aquinas: Scholastic Theologian and the Creator of the Medieval Christian Synthesis" reinstated the mind of reasoning and the understanding of what education is. Aquinas indeed was a very intellectual person of his time and understood what it meant to be educated; as well as what it means to be a teacher. His beliefs and research shows that he is not only a great theologian but a man that understood the essence of education and reformed it to make it sensible to others. Thomism or the philosophy of Aquinas described how people were looked into two different ways and not just one; one being the supernatural and the other one being the natural. Another distinctive thing that he did was he own definitions of what education, schooling, teaching, and learning were all about. These core definitions aided him in our understanding of what it means to be an...
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