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 Trinitate
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Trinitate.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Augustine of Hippo.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early treatment of the Trinity in his Sentences commentary is saturated with citation of Augustine's De Trinitate, the single most-cited patristic authority in his corpus after Scripture.