St. Thomas Aquinas . . . “Trying To Know God, Love God, And Help Others Get There”
By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The ultimate purpose of theology isn’t probing religious theories or citing the Bible, but gaining the unimaginable joys of Heaven. That seemed to be the message of a presentation on the Catholic Church’s “premier theologian,” St. Thomas Aquinas, livestreamed on May 2 because of the pandemic by the Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT), an adult education program based at St. Thomas the Apostle Church here. In medieval ages when university graduates with their licentiates or doctorates were expected to be able to converse about all the knowledge of the time, that period’s St. Thomas Aquinas still had a remarkable degree of scholarship that earned him recognition as “the greatest teacher the Church has ever known,”…Continue Reading