There is no such term as "deistic" in the Middle Ages. That belief is one of many outgrowth of the Reformation. Aquinaes, Dominican, was as Christian as they come. In a "shallow" explanation, he felt that to merely say, "I believe" wasn't a sufficient argument against the Islamic Moors, especially Avereoiam or the recently split off Eastern Orthodox. So, using the newly discovered Aristotelian texts, he used logic and in his Summa Theologica came up with ten proofs for the existence of God. It got him into hot water with the Christian authorities who came very close to excommunicating him because of his "Aristotelianism" that many thought was attacking the purity of the Christian faith, that is, asserting said that Man was not totally evil and solely dependent on divine revelation through the Church but was capable of using his mind to reach God and that truth could be known through reason..
Make it a good day -Louis- Louis Schmier http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org Department of History http://www.therandomthoughts.com Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698 /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ (O) 229-333-5947 /^\\/ \/ \ /\/\__ / \ / \ (C) 229-630-0821 / \/ \_ \/ / \/ /\/ / \ /\ \ //\/\/ /\ \__/__/_/\_\/ \_/__\ \ /\"If you want to climb mountains,\ /\ _ / \ don't practice on mole hills" - / \_ On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:51 AM, michael sylvester wrote: Was Thomas Aquinas deistic or christian? Didn't he write a PRNCIPA? Michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: lschm...@valdosta.edu<mailto:lschm...@valdosta.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13368.9b8fe41d7a9a359029570f1d2ef42440&n=T&l=tips&o=4931 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-4931-13368.9b8fe41d7a9a359029570f1d2ef42...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-4931-13368.9b8fe41d7a9a359029570f1d2ef42...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4934 or send a blank email to leave-4934-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
