The work is mammoth. It is also intricately arranged, akin to the structure of a medieval cathedral. Like Chartes, a tour of the Summa can be daunting initially. Bernard McGinn is a warm and ...

During his general audience on June 23, Pope Benedict XVI continued his catechesis on St. Thomas Aquinas. He spoke about Aquinas’ monumental work, the Summa Theologiae, which reflects his serene ...

"Endeavoring to avoid these and other like faults, we shall try, by God's help, to set forth whatever is included in this sacred doctrine as briefly and clearly as the matter itself may allow" [1].

A “biography” of Thomas Aquinas’s masterwork. Much-remarked about Princeton's series on religious classics is the cleverness of offering "biographies" of books. Once upon a time, critical theory ...

Summa Theologica Part I (Prima Pars) Thomas Aquinas - The Summa Theologiae (Latin: Compendium of Theology or Theological Compendium; also subsequently called the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa, ...

On Dec. 6, 1273, 750 years ago, St. Thomas Aquinas did the unthinkable: He permanently abandoned work on his magnum opus, the Summa Theologiae, after many years of intensive labor and just months shy ...

Taken as a whole, the Summa Theologica overwhelms most readers. So take one bite at a time. Many theologians and philosophers in St. Thomas’s time wrote Summas. A Summa is simply a summary. It is more ...

Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica. 1274. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province.New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947. Bosco, Mark, S.J. “O’Connor’s Prayer Journal and the Life of Faith.” ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Catholic moral theology today, especially virtue ethics, often bears little connection to the sacraments; Catholic ethicists largely do not ...