theologian
Thomas Aquinas
Dominican theologian (1225–1274 AD), the greatest scholastic ethicist, whose synthesis of Aristotle and Christian theology deeply influenced Western moral philosophy. Nektarios describes him as 'the greatest ethicist of the Middle Ages'.
Mentioned in 1 passage.
(1), disciple of Manes, to whom he is said to have entrusted the region of Syria as his field of operations. Petrus Siculus, Hist. Manich.c.16, Migne's Patr. Graec. t. civ. col. 1266, accuses him of forging the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, but Origen mentions it long before his — time. (Fligel's Mani, pp. 12, 15, 174.)
[G. T. S.J
(2), bishop of unknown see, who had been deprived like Heras and Nicostratus in the time of Anastasius, and was still excluded from communion. Besides the letters of Hormisdas mentioned under HELiAs, dealing with — the cases of all three, in the following letters, Thomas and Nicostratus only are referred to. (Zpp. 53-56, 63, in Migne, Patr. Lat. lxiii. 461-463, 469.) [F. D.J