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 De Doctrina Christiana
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Doctrina Christiana.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Augustine of Hippo.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early hermeneutical remarks in the Sentences commentary's prologue draw on Augustine's sign theory in De Doctrina Christiana.