St. Thomas Aquinas preached the illuminating sermons in these books to the townspeople of Naples -- to lay persons, not scholars. "The Three Greatest Prayers" contains his clear explanations of the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Apostles' Creed. In "God's Greatest Gifts", St. Thomas explains the Sacraments and the Commandments.Both books draw heavily on Scripture.
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Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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