Thomas Aquinas Contribution To Philosophy. Thomas aquinas was the greatest of the scholastic philosophers. He produced a comprehensive synthesis of christian theology and aristotelian philosophy that influenced roman catholic doctrine for centuries and was adopted as the official philosophy of the church in 1917.

While the book itself is relatively short for a scholarly monograph (falling short of 200 pages), it more than makes up. His work contains influential contributions in logic, metaphysics, theory of knowledge, ethics and philosophy of religion, and Thomas aquinas was the greatest of the scholastic philosophers.