Thomas Aquinas, part 5: what does it mean to be human? | Tina Beattie
For Aquinas, the link between consciousness and matter is our desire for God as an expression of the life of the TrinityFor Thomas Aquinas, the human is a paradox. As "rational animals", we are the only species that straddles the divide between matter ...
Thomas Aquinas, part 4: how did the world begin? | Tina Beattie
Aquinas's understanding of our origins combines Aristotelian and Platonic cosmologies with the biblical account of creationOne question has captivated the human imagination from the pre-Socratic Greeks to scientists working at Cern: how did the world b...
Thomas Aquinas, part 3: scripture, reason and the being of God | Tina Beattie
For Aquinas, the being of God is better understood as a verb than a noun – a dynamism that sustains all creationThomas Aquinas would have agreed with a comment on this website that he was as vulnerable to error as anyone else and should never be take...
Thomas Aquinas, part 6: natural law | Tina Beattie