This thinker distinguished between the supernatural and preternatural by asserting that the supernatural was the exclusive work of the primary cause.
A critique of this thinker by Bertrand Russell disparaged this man for beginning his arguments from dogmatic belief. At the University of Paris, this thinker engaged in a dispute with Siger de Brabant over this thinker's distrust of AverroÃ«s ["uh-VAIR-oh-ees"]. The encyclical Aeterni Patris was delivered in support of this thinker, whose later followers included Gaetano (*) Sanseverino. This thinker distinguished between the supernatural and preternatural by asserting that the supernatural was the exclusive work of the primary cause. Because all objects have properties, and some entity has properties to the maximum degree, this thinker concluded that God must therefore exist. For 10 points, name this pioneer of scholasticism and Doctor of the Church who wrote the Summa Theologica.
A critique of this thinker by Bertrand Russell disparaged this man for beginning his arguments from dogmatic belief.
St. Thomas Aquinas 