Les sermons de saint Thomas ne sont pas la partie la plus connue de son oeuvre. Hormis certaines predications sur les grandes prieres chretiennes ayant connu une excellente diffusion, la transmission de ses enseignements oraux a souffert des affres du temps et les temoignages divergent sur leur contenu. En sa qualite de dominicain et de Maitre de Theologie, saint Thomas fut pourtant oblige de precher a de nombreuses reprises dans la France et l'Italie du XIIIe siecle. Quelles traces nous sont parvenues de ses predications ? Comment eclairent-elles la pensee thomiste ? Se basant sur les travaux du pere Bataillon pour l'edition latine Leonine, cette somme des sermons de Saint Thomas nous en fait redecouvrir les richesses.
Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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