About the Author Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 1274), a.k.a. The Angelic Doctor, is perhaps the greatest theological mind in the history of the Church. We can get an inkling of his mind from a chance comment he made: in all his reading, Aquinas had never experienced what it was like not to understand something and need to reread it. G. K. Chesterton, in his book on Saint Thomas, imagined his mind as a model of the universe, “In the world of that mind there was a wheel of angels, and a wheel of planets, and a wheel of plants or of animals; but there was also a just and intelligible order of all earthly things, a sane authority and a self-respecting liberty, and a hundred answers to a hundred questions in the complexity of ethics or economics.” So it is no surprise that Saint Thomas addresses many questions about marriage. Here is one such question: Among his other works, Aquinas wrote the
Saint Thomas Aquinas mulls over Marriage
Saint Thomas Aquinas mulls over Marriage
Saint Thomas Aquinas mulls over Marriage
About the Author Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225 – 1274), a.k.a. The Angelic Doctor, is perhaps the greatest theological mind in the history of the Church. We can get an inkling of his mind from a chance comment he made: in all his reading, Aquinas had never experienced what it was like not to understand something and need to reread it. G. K. Chesterton, in his book on Saint Thomas, imagined his mind as a model of the universe, “In the world of that mind there was a wheel of angels, and a wheel of planets, and a wheel of plants or of animals; but there was also a just and intelligible order of all earthly things, a sane authority and a self-respecting liberty, and a hundred answers to a hundred questions in the complexity of ethics or economics.” So it is no surprise that Saint Thomas addresses many questions about marriage. Here is one such question: Among his other works, Aquinas wrote the