Thomas Aquinas is a theologian and the philosopher living in the 13th century. He is considered the first teacher of church and carries a title of "the prince of philosophy". Having connected christian teaching and doctrines to philosophical methods of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas based thomism.
Thomas Aquinas (differently Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Akvinat or Foma Akvinat) in 1225 or at the beginning of 1226 in the patrimonial Rokkasekka lock which was located in the neighborhood of the city of Akvino was born. His father, the count Aquinas, owned the city. Thomas Akvinat in the Benedictine monastery of Monte-Kassino was brought up. Then studied free sciences at the university of Naples.
Having entered a Dominican award, Thomas Aquinas went to Paris and Cologne to study theology and to pass novitsiat. So in Catholic church the test for the persons wishing to join monastic order is called. At this time Albert Veliky was his mentor. In 1252 Foma Akvinat returned to the Dominican monastery of Saint James in Paris, and 4 years later it appointed the teacher of theology of the Parisian university.
In the summer of 1259 it returned home, to Italy where for 10 years was the adviser for theological questions and "reader" at papal curia. Thomas Aquinas on the way to Lyon where he was invited by dad Grigory X as the consultant and the adviser of the Lyons cathedral died on March 7, 1274. On April 11, 1567 Thomas Aquinas was proclaimed the teacher of church. Saint Foma Akvinat's memory the roman catholic church celebrates the day on January 28. Thomas Aquinas sought to canonize Aristotle's philosophy. Lowering materialistic provisions in views of the Ancient Greek philosopher, he coordinated his doctrine to Platon's ideas. Thomas Aquinas considered essence of things in a separation from things. Thomas Aquinas removed and formulated 5 proofs of Divine life. God in his doctrine is the prime cause and an ultimate goal real. Recognizing relative independence of human mind and natural life, Foma Akvinat claimed that the nature comes to the end in grace, reason – in belief, and philosophical knowledge and natural theology – in a supernatural revelation. Thomas Aquinas's doctrine formed the basis of the Catholic directions of philosophy and theology – thomism and neothomism. In a dispute on a universal of its judgment had something in common with Avicenna's judgments. The main compositions of Thomas Aquinas are "The theology sum" and "The sum against pagans". In 1879 its works were recognized as fundamentals of Catholic theology.