A question on St. Thomas Aquinas

[Crescentinus]

Is it a good idea to still call him as the Dumb Ox?

[Theophorus]

Originally Posted by Crescentinus

Is it a good idea to still call him as the Dumb Ox?

You call him the dumb ox, but one day he will emit such a bellowing in his teaching that it will be heard throughout the world

St. albert the great on St. Thomas

[Pfaffenhoffen]

Originally Posted by Crescentinus

Is it a good idea to still call him as the Dumb Ox?

That's what he was called.
I feel the "dumb" a little too much. An ox, yes, but a horse too, for the speed of his reasoning and elephant for his prodigious memory.
Some books, jokingly, put that in the title.
But you need to understand the joke.

[Fiasco]

We Catholics know what a great intellect Saint Thomas had, so it`s really a term of endearment.

Saint Francis of Assisi called himself (or his body) "Brother Donkey"!

[littlestsouls]

Originally Posted by Crescentinus

Is it a good idea to still call him as the Dumb Ox?

It was NEVER a good idea to call him a "dumb ox!"