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 Fide Orthodoxa
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Fide Orthodoxa.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by John of Damascus.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas cites John of Damascus's De Fide Orthodoxa, in Burgundio of Pisa's 12th-century Latin translation, extensively throughout the Summa's treatise on the divine attributes.