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English Summa and contra Gentiles print the public use of Aristotle in Christian theology

The English opera print a programme of citing the Philosopher inside sacred doctrine, a completed intellectual instrument in modern public English. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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The English opera print a programme of citing the Philosopher inside sacred doctrine, a completed intellectual instrument in modern public English. The dated carrier is that translation cluster. Pagan science in a Christian school is an access gain relative to a ban.

Context

1277 shows the risk.

Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — AquinasStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers)New Advent / Kevin Knight · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas Aquinas
  2. contributed toFactEnglish Summa and contra Gentiles print the public use of Aristotle in Christian theology
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). English Summa and contra Gentiles print the public use of Aristotle in Christian theology. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-aristotle-reception

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-aristotle-reception

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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