Inner fire

panel from philosophy window: Aquinas (1225–1274) is shown writing his massive Summa Theologiae. The book’s three parts expounded his views on God, ethics, and Christ. An Italian Dominican theologian and philosopher who based his own conclusions on Aristotelian precepts, Aquinas believed rational thought and divine revelation could coexist: “To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.”