Thomas Aquinas, is a well-known theologian, who brought about many new ideas, common beliefs, and laws that are still talked about today. His works reflect everything from trying to prove the existence of God to the human emotion of lust. What is acceptable in the Roman Catholic Church usually stems from Aquinas’ thoughts and understanding of humanity and the earthly world. Aquinas’ beliefs about homosexuality are similar to how the Catholic Church views it. Sexuality …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

…showed last 75 words of 860 total…canonized a saint in 1323, officially named doctor of the church in 1567, and proclaimed the protagonist of orthodoxy during the modernist crisis at the end of the 19th century. All of these accomplishments can not take away the historical difficulties in which he faced in the 13th century, during the radical theological renewal. At the time this renewal was contested but still brought about by the social, religious and cultural evolution of the West (Internet, trading, 4).