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 Confessions
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Confessions.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Augustine of Hippo.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early discussion of time and eternity in the Sentences commentary cites Augustine's Confessions, particularly its meditation on time in Book XI.