1. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

2. Saint Anselm (1033-1109) “It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.”

3. The University of Paris

4. Hugh of Saint Victor (1096-1141) “Learn everything, later you will see that nothing is superfluous.”

5. Saint Albert the Great (1206-1280)

6. Saint Dominic (1170-1221)

7. Thomas Aquinas had a joyful and world-affirming attitude toward his studies and how he saw them fitting into a life of faith.

8. Thomas Aquinas taught that the world must be good since God gave it its existence.

9. The rationality of Thomas Aquinas was always in a a certain tension with his mystical understanding.”

10. “… such things have been revealed to me that all that I have written seems to me as so much straw.”

11. Aquinas converted and baptized Aristotle, but at the same time Aquinas converted medieval Christianity to Aristotle and the values Aristotle represented.