Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
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 City of God
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to City of God.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Augustine of Hippo.
Evidence ledger
- The Summa's treatment of just war draws on and extends Augustine's City of God, systematizing conditions Augustine states more occasionally.