Angelic Doctor

(Biography) an epithet of Saint Thomas Aquinas

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This disclaimer, early in the Summa, did not prevent the Angelic Doctor from developing his own trinitarian theology, based, as it was, on a literal reading of the Scriptures.

Toward a Trinitarian Theology of Liturgical Participation

Even in this, however, Lombardo performs a valuable service, reminding us that the mind of the Angelic Doctor is often in the details.--Giuseppe Butera, Providence College.

Lombardo, Nicholas E.: The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion

The Angelic Doctor is the best of companions along this way.

Why Thomism? Why now?

Thomas Aquinas, that is, the Angelic Doctor. During his years at the University of Paris he popularized the thinking of Aristotle, despite a host of warnings and condemnations from bishops, Roman curia officials and several popes.

Saving us from radical Greek thinking

Thus, Bonaventure was the Doctor Seraphicus ("Seraphic Doctor"), Thomas Aquinas, the Doctor Angelicus ("Angelic Doctor"), and so on.

Preferred providers; how the church chooses its Doctors

In the earlier dominant narrative, the Angelic Doctor is thought to be everything that Eastern Christianity is not, particularly on the question of the use of pagan sources and the role of human reason in the work of theology.

Orthodox Readings of Aquinas

Thomas thinks this or that, or that his thought entails this or that conclusion, Father Elders cites in support of his assertion, and includes in a footnote, a full sentence or two in the original Latin from the works of the Angelic Doctor himself.

Elders, Leo J. Au Coeur de la Philosophie de Saint Thomas d'Aquin

Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, Part III, Questions 1 to 59, where the Angelic Doctor moves step by step from the Incarnation to Jesus' enthronement at the Father's right hand.

A movie, a mystic, a spiritual tradition

Thomas Aquinas' proofs of the existence of God and bones up on the Angelic Doctor as if he had never heard of the guy.

Nothing Sacred

On the heels of MOTHER ANGELICA, the fundamentalist tele-evangelist, comes the ANGELIC DOCTOR, a metaphoric name for Saint Thomas Aquinas.

From anathema to zucchetto: a faith that speaks volumes

Remarkably, the Jewish community appealed to the authority of Thomas Aquinas to reject baptism against the will of the parents and concluded that the pope himself had disregarded the teaching of the Angelic Doctor (120)!

Forced Baptisms: Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome

In short, this concession to Kant fails to circumvent the Kantian proscription on metaphysics--an unpleasant outcome for the Transcendental Thomists who ostensibly wish to revitalize the full speculative range of the Angelic Doctor's thought.