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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Late have I loved him—or later, at least, than a lot of people. I was 27 years old when I first sat down to read the work of St. Thomas Aquinas seriously. At that point, having grown up in the ...

Wuhan (Agenzia Fides) - "Openness, inclusiveness, innovation, rationality" and many other characteristics of the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) were the focus of the "Fifth National ...