Thomas Aquinas in Less than a Thousand Words


	Thomas Aquinas in Less than a Thousand Words

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9-25-2007 1:33 PM

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aquinas, revelation, words

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Aquinas' 'Summa Theolologica' is the most famous of the ten or so million words he wrote.

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