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History of Christianity is a six part survey designed to stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of pivotal events and persons in the spread of the church.
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his Month's Anecdote from Church History
Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225 - 1274) Discerns True Value.
Thomas Aquinas was the most notable Christian philosopher of the 13th century, on whose system, called Thomism, much Catholic theology is based to this day.
Thomas Aquinas, nicknamed the Angelic Doctor, was highly regarded by Pope Innocent IV. One day he went to the pope's rooms, where assistants were tallying large sums of money. The pope said to Aquinas, "You see, the church is no longer in an age when she must say like Peter, 'Silver and gold have I none.'"
"It is true, Holy Father," replied Aquinas. "Nor can she now say to the lame man, 'Rise and walk.'"
• Adapted from Walter Baxendale's Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1889.
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