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Thomas Aquinas

This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.

Thomas Aquinas and De Principiis (Peri Archon)

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Principiis (Peri Archon).

Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Origen.

Evidence ledger

  • Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-22951-160-206): Origen + work cue 'Periarch': clear authority+work, proposing new Work 'De Principiis (Peri Archon)'; mediated per translation channel; cited in an objection (scholastic harmonization expected, not contest)