Thomas Aquinas analysis
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Thomas Aquinas analysis includes insights from the vast works of Thomas Aquinas, with some healthy criticism where it sparks further understanding.
Aquinas wrote much about the Bible, for which he is unanimously praised, while he also attempted to recycle Aristotle's philosophy with Christianity, for which there is some disagreement.[1]
On the issue of Samaritans, Aquinas wrote:
| “ | the Samaritans observed the Jewish rites in some things and not in others. Therefore, the Jews, seeing that Christ observed the law in some matters and broke it in others, for example, the law of the Sabbath, called him a Samaritan.[2] | ” |
Building on Anselm's work
Aquinas built on the work of Anselm of Canterbury, while also going in entirely new directions. Aquinas cited Anselm 253 times, as in the Summa Theologica:
| “ | Therefore it is not impossible that two or three Divine Persons should assume one human nature, but it would be impossible for them to assume one human hypostasis or person; thus Anselm says in the book De Concep. Virg. (Cur Deus Homo ii, 9), that "several Persons cannot assume one and the same man to unity of Person."[3] | ” |