can you tell me something about the other person too?
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas (; ; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. 
what is the  augustinian theodicy? The Augustinian theodicy, named for the 4th- and 5th-century theologian and philosopher Augustine of Hippo, is a type of Christian theodicy designed in response to the evidential problem of evil. when was it designed? Plantinga's adapted Augustinian theodicy, the free will defence – which he proposed in the 1980s – attempts to answer only the logical problem of evil. what was the theodicy about? It attempts to explain the probability of an omnipotent (all-powerful) and omnibenevolent (all-good) God amid evidence of evil in the world. and what is a theodicy? Theodicy () means vindication of God. It is to answer the question of why a good God permits the manifestation of evil, thus resolving the issue of the problem of evil. are there different types of theodicies? Yes, Biblical theodicy, Augustinian theodicy, Irenaean theodicy, Origenian theodicy. how did augustine contribute towards the theodicy? He rejected the idea that evil exists in itself, instead regarding it as a corruption of goodness, caused by humanity's abuse of free will. did anyone get influenced by his idea? Yes - John Hick, Thomas Aquinas can you tell me something about the first person? John Harwood Hick was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career.
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Thomas Aquinas [SEP] Introduction
Thomas Aquinas (; ; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, he is also known within the latter as the and the . The name "Aquinas" identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, Italy. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism; of which he argued that reason is found in God. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.