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The Church Fathers · c. 518–522

On the Trinity

De Trinitate

Boethius · c. 477–524

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What it is

A very short treatise applying the Aristotelian categories to God, and asking which of them can be predicated of a being who is wholly simple.

Why it lasted

The first of the theological tractates, and the text on which Aquinas wrote one of his most important commentaries.

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