Writing in the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas never used the term “textualism” in his discussions of law in the Summa Theologica. He did, however, basically discuss the issue in two different treatises in the Summa and commends a pretty straightforward textualist approach to reading “written law.”
In his “Treatise on Prudence and Justice” in the Summa, Aquinas discusses the question “Whether we should always judge according to the written law?”
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