How Do Orthodox Christians View Thomas Aquinas?

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Excerpted from Lesson 4: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to the Apostle & Evangelist John the Theologian, Rev. 14: 9-12 (Series 4), by Fr. Peter Heers

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[mwhabs]

Unrelated but please pray for unity between Eastern and Oriental Orthodox 🙏

[ieshjust]

Thanks for holding us accountable, Tony

[DANtheMANofSIPA]

Fr Seraphim Rose explains how Thomas Aquinas in part lead to rationalism and atheism in Western Society in his lectures titled “Orthodox Survival Course.”

[nicp]

Wasnt his teachings contrary to St. Gregory Palamas?

[hap]

St. Thomas brought me into the Catholic church from almost converting to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Read him directly, he will be my confirmation saint ❤️

[anthonyj]

Thank you for your insights Father. After recently reading the Didache, didn’t the Apostles teach within it the acceptance of both triple full immersion and triple sprinkling?

[SnowbunyinIL]

The philosophy of Thomism is based on the belief that reason and faith are both necessary to achieve true knowledge

[Juan-gdwd]

I know this is quite unrelated but today i asked my spiritual father (i'm a catechumen) if a person that's outside of the Church, me, basically, can receive the mystery of Confession and he said that it was possible. Is this correct? Thank you for the content and God bless!

[OrthodoxChristianTheology]

Aquinas and the scholastics' approach to theology is fundamentally wrong. It is not that we cannot make logical deducations and draw valid inferences. It is that we must use sylogisms and such to expound and defends clear, patristic ideas--not make new ones. The faith was delivered once and for all to the saints. (Jude 1:4) We don't develop new doctrines with philosophy. The idea that there really were scholastics who "answered" the question "how many angels can stand on the head of the pin, " something clearly the Church has never taken any interest in, speaks of the vapid and bankrupt nature of the scholastic approach as compared to the syllogisms of St Gregory Palamas and others who devised valid logical argumentation in defense of concrete, patrisitic antecedents.

[colinpope]

I would challenge the notion that Aquinas is overly rational. In the beginning of the Summa he says "Now, because we cannot know what God is, but rather what He is not, we have no means for considering how God is, but rather how He is not." ST.1.Q3, joining the fathers in the practice of apophatic theology. Certainly the Aristotelian terminology which he uses to articulate the perennial truths of the faith was new but he did that because that was the language in vogue in his day and as Pope Benedict said (I'm paraphrasing here because I can't find the quote) "the job of the theologian is to articulate the perennial truths of the faith so that the people of his time can begin to grasp them."

[eldermillennial]

His thesis against the Albigensians has always seemed solid to me.

[leandromacairan]

sir we are not roman catholic but we are catholic only. the only church for jesus.

[chrisgarr]

Some of Thomas Aquinas ideas were rebuked and anathematized in the 9th ecumenical Palamist councils

[STMukr]

Aquinas is that guy or scholastic philosopher who by rediscovering Aristotle open the gates and windows to rationalism. It is good in someway but not for mysticism or faith at all.
Because later reformers will pick up that ratio and it will lead people to abandoning God. And death to philosophy at all. In nowadays.
It is sad. And it is apostasy...

And of course he is out of patriotic vision and stance of Holy Fathers. Just a man mixing faith with philosophy.
"If he have chance to return back now and see to what his work go....maybe he will reject and burn them"...
I can say this also about reformers, especially M. Luther. To see what its done to Church at all and ruin...

[Athenagoras.]

Well, since he openly preached heresy, commemorated a heretical anathematised line of bishop "the a heretic, nothing more, nothing less.
Christ have mercy upon him.

[NickOeffinger]

Thomas did a lot for me on my path to Orthodoxy.

I prayed at his tomb in Toulouse last summer.

[johngraves]

Was literally about to search up views on Augustine, and I see this. So can we get this but on Augustine?

[Imitatinghim]

Of course his theology was wack. But I think I think he was simply a product of his environment, Saint mark of Ephesus loved him and as well as st gennadius. They of course rejected his theology but as a person they really appreciated him.

[punishedwhirligig]

one thing I wonder is why is it called Thomism and not Aquinism

Lutheranism isnt Martinism, Calvinism isnt Johnism, but Thomism is Thomism

strange

[thealaskanseparatist]

Just went to a latin mass dedicated to his story, and i found it compelling