The "Greeks" and Thomas Aquinas's Theology

Thomas Aquinas’s historical relation to Greek-speaking Christianity after the “patristic period” is too often limited to the circumstances surrounding a single treatise, Against the Errors of the Greeks. His conceptual debt to Greek learning is more typically asserted in philosophy or natural science than in theology. In fact, Thomas was eager to engage with eastern Christian sources of whatever era. What is more important, they appear in his writing not only as doctrinal or exegetical details but in the shape of his pedagogy for the whole of Christian theology.