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    "title": "Thomas Aquinas",
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    "summary": "A Dominican theologian and philosopher, Thomas Aquinas brings Aristotelian argument into Christian theology. He proceeds through objections, precise distinctions and replies in order to relate reason and revelation, action and virtue, nature and grace.",
    "body": "Thomas Aquinas died on 7 March 1274. Later Thomism, the completed Supplementum and modern Catholic doctrine postdate him.",
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