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  <name><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. was an Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, a philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis and Doctor Communis. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology.

Aquinas is held in the Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood (Code of Canon Law, Can. 252, §3). The works for which he is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. One of the 33 Doctors of the Church, he is considered by many Catholics to be the Catholic Church's greatest theologian and philosopher. Consequently, many institutions of learning have been named after him.
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  <title><![CDATA[Summa Theologica (5 Vols.)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Fathers of the English Dominican Province]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Philosophical Writings]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[On Law, Morality, and Politics]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Treatise on Law]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard J. Regan]]></name>
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  <published>1965</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Writings]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ralph M. McInerny]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[On Being and Essence]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Introduction To Saint Thomas Aquinas]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Thomas Aquinas]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation]]></title>
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