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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 The angels

How Thomas Aquinas's reading engaged the concept of The angels.

This page traces how Thomas Aquinas's reading connects to the shared concept The angels.

Evidence ledger

  • Absorbed (confidence 0.65): The Summa's treatise on the angels adopts Pseudo-Dionysius's ninefold angelic hierarchy from De Coelesti Hierarchia. (from De Coelesti Hierarchia)
  • Absorbed (confidence 0.86): Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-22940-111-165): Pseudo-Dionysius + work cue 'div.nom' resolves to corpus work pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite-de-divinis-nominibus; explicit locator present; mediated per translation channel; cited in the sed contra (supporting authority)

This page links to the shared public concept The angels without overwriting it -- the public Inferpedia page for that concept is untouched.