A Painting of Thomas Aquinas
A Painting of Thomas Aquinas A painting of Thomas Aquinas enthroned between the doctors of the Old and New Testaments . Other important scholastic theologians such as Bonaventura, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham extended and developed Thomas’s teachings in different directions. None of them could ignore the contribution he had made. The Seven Sacraments One of the most enduring contributions of scholastic theology was the systematizing of the seven sacraments of medieval Catholicism. Peter Lombard was the first theologian to insist that there were only seven sacraments. Other thinkers such as Hugh of St. Victor and Thomas Aquinas discussed the meaning of these sacraments and their role in the Christian life. Two of the sacraments were for a restricted group within Christendom: ordination or holy orders for those who were called to a priestly ministry in the church and marriage for those who were wedded as husband and wife. The other five sacraments—baptism, c...