Did you know that for St Thomas Aquinas... ?

  • faith does not dispense from the use of reason, but rather demands it
  • the existence of God is not only an object of faith but can be demonstrated with rational arguments
  • if God were (only) one, he would be imperfect and unhappy (because he would be 'alone and lonely')
  • even if the world had no beginning in time and existed forever, it would still be created
  • we did not even exist in God's mind before we were created
  • there are no other possible worlds and no world of ideas
  • there is no evil (but only evil individuals)
  • there is no corruption (but only corrupt individuals)
  • there is no body without a soul and no matter without form
  • the immortality of the soul is not a central doctrine of Christianity (as is the resurrection of the whole man, body and soul)
  • human happiness does not consist in participating in divine happiness (by renouncing oneself)
  • anger is not always a vice but can be a virtue
  • one of the worst vices is not to be angry in the face of injustice
  • the hope of achieving great things, even if difficult, is not presumption but greatness of spirit
  • the renunciation of achieving great things is not humility but pusillanimity
  • spiritual vices are more serious than corporal ones, i.e. gluttony and lust
  • passions are indispensable to virtue
  • prior to original sin, Adam and Eve united in coitus and, indeed, experienced more pleasure!