Thomas Aquinas: A Historical and Philosophical Profile"In his highly regarded Thomas Aquinas: A Historical and Philosophical Profile, while grasping fully that by profession and self understanding Thomas Aquinas was formally a Christian theologian for whom philosophy as such was a noble artifact of an un Christian past, Pasquale Porro demonstrates that nonetheless in each of his writings Thomas turned decisively to the ancient discipline, at the time embodied in the Arts faculty of the university, not