Thomas Aquinas on Canon of the Old Testament
1225 – 1274 · SCHOLASTIC
DISPUTED AMONG SCHOLARSINTERNALLY CONTESTED°
Wider canon — deuterocanonical books included
THE POSITION
Worked within the wider Latin canon, but his own treatment of the disputed books is hesitant enough that the Catholic Encyclopedia's article on the Old Testament canon names him among those whose veneration was 'tempered by some perplexity as to their exact standing.'
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66 books — Apocrypha useful but not ScriptureATHANASIUS · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · JOSH HOWERTON · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · JOHN MACARTHUR · GAVIN ORTLUND · JOHN OWEN · JUSTIN PETERS · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · ZWINGLI
Predates or straddles the settled disputeCHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS
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Dominican friar, author of the Summa Theologiae. Synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Christian doctrine; the reference point for later Catholic theology.
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Everything Aquinas holds →Cite this page
"Thomas Aquinas on Canon of the Old Testament", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/aquinas/ot-canon (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/aquinas/ot-canon).