St Thomas Aquinas Essay Research Paper I

St. Thomas Aquinas Essay, Research Paper

I chose to write about Saint Thomas Aquinas because I have heard of his life and found it

interesting. There was also a large pool of knowledge to research from, about Saint

Thomas Aquinas. I also knew he is called Doctor of the church and I wanted to learn

more about that.

I was interested in Saint Thomas Aquinas because he was misunderstood

by his peers and was also called “the Dumb Ox”. I wanted to understand how someone

can be so misunderstood stood and be a brilliant philosopher. After reading about him I

realize he was truly a humble being who did not need to prove himself to anyone. His

love of God came first in his life. He was able to overcome the obstacles in his life and

pursue his dream of learning about God and the truth. Finding the truth in all things is

what made Thomas a great saint. Faith and truth were always his main thought.

Before I did the research I didn’t know what to anticipate, I learned that

Thomas Aquinas was a saint, philosopher, theologian, doctor of the church, and a patron

of catholic universities. Many religious orders study and follow the teachings and

followings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In this paper I have uncovered the true life of Saint

Thomas Aquinas and his methods of Theology. He strongly emphasized his belief of

theology through revolation. By looking further into his teachings, I have become more

familiar and feel closer to my own personal faith.

Saint Thomas Aquinas is one of the most famous saints of the Catholic

Church. He is called a ‘Doctor of the Church.’ He was a theologian, and philosopher. A

theologian is someone who spends their life thinking about Jesus’ life. They figure out

things about God and the Catholic faith through prayer and study. Theologians help

everyone learn about God.

Saint Thomas’ love of God and learning wasn’t always respected. His

parents sent him to a monastery when he was five years old to study and learn. His

teachers were surprised by how quickly he learned and his great faith. But when Thomas

announced that he wanted to become a Dominican, his family tried to stop him. His

brothers captured him and locked him up in a castle. His mother, sister and brothers kept

him there for two years.

Finally, they changed their minds, and at last Thomas was allowed to join

the Dominicans. Even there though, he still had some trouble. Thomas was a very big

man with a kind and humble manner. Because he didn’t talk very much, everyone thought

he was stupid. They called him ‘the ox.’ But when they heard him preach everyone

realized how wise and pious he really was. After he became a priest, Thomas studied in

Paris and then taught at universities in many cities of Europe. He wrote more than 40

books and several beautiful hymns. All of his work praises God and has helped many

people understand their faith better.

At the end of his life, Saint Thomas stopped writing. He had a vision of

Heaven and decided that compared to the great glory of God, his writing was ‘like straw.’

Three months later, on his way to see the Pope, he died. He is now in Heaven, and after a

lifetime of studying and writing about God, he is in the presence of God.

He was born in Italy in 1225, the son of a count. When he was five years

old, his parents send him to study with the Benedictines of Monte Casino. There, and

later at the university of Naples, he was taught the ‘liberal arts’ – the Trivium; grammar,

logic and rhetoric, and the Quadrium; music, mathematics, geometry and astronomy.

This was a complete education in those times. His teachers were surprised by his

intelligence. He especially excelled in learning as well as practicing the virtues.

When he was 19 years old, and old enough to decide how to spend his life,

he announced that he wanted to become a Dominican friar. His family, who by some

accounts wanted him to become a Benedictine, protested violently. His mother instructed

his brothers to capture Thomas and lock him up in a castle.

They kept him there for nearly two years, trying one thing after another to change his

mind. They even send a woman of bad reputation into his room, but Thomas chased her

out with a piece of burning wood from the fire. After this event, he prayed to God, asking

for purity of mind and body. Two angels appeared to him in a dream, to assure him that

his prayers had been answered and that God was giving him the gift of perfect chastity.

From this, he earned the title ‘Angelic Doctor.’

He spent his imprisonment reading and in prayer, so when his family

finally relented and Thomas joined his Dominican brothers, his superior exclaimed that

‘He had made as much progress as if he had been in a studium generale’. After he made

his vows, and was closely questioned by the Pope about his motives for joining the

Dominicans, he was sent to study under a renowned professor of the Dominican o

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