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Thomas Aquinas

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 Divinis Nominibus

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Divinis Nominibus.

Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

Evidence ledger

  • Aquinas wrote a full commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius's De Divinis Nominibus using John Sarracenus's 12th-century Latin translation, and the Summa's treatise on the divine names draws directly on it.

Concepts moved from this book