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Originally Posted by Maximilian
Thoman Aquanis, one of the earliest to use the term, from a Christian perspective. Not sure what you're not getting out of that.
Sigh... I tried folks. Game over.
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Do you mean St Thomas d'Aquinas?
Aquinas blended Greek philosophy and Christian doctrine
Just like you do. He was a Roman Catholic monk.
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However, his credulity regarding demonology and witchcraft had an unfortunate influence on witchhunters, and he was later cited as an authority by such writers as Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger, authors of the infamous Malleus Maleficarum. Although Aquinas did not accept the concept of a pact with the Devil, he endorsed the belief of diabolical association, and the incubus and succubus. He echoed Albertus Magnus in claiming that when Satan tempted Christ on the mountain-top, he carried Christ on his shoulders, and this belief was used by later witchhunters to endorse the theory of transvection, or magical transport of witches through the air. Aquinas also believed in the power of the evil eye used by old women who had an association with the Devil. His argument that heretics should be burned was later used to justify the burning of witches.
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Social justice St thomas d'Aquinas style. Burn the heretics.
No wonder maxililian get nasty on the social justice issue.
"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."
Is he a Christian? Burn heretics?