"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].

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most material on Aquinas gets very philosophical very quickly. This is unfortunate, as the first sight of a passage like “every essence or quiddity can be understood without knowing anything about its ...

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 ...

Last week we discussed the three pivotal moments in salvation history, which are truly built around the life of Christ. They are the Incarnation, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. Having ...

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 ...

Tai Pei (Agenzia Fides) – With the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the evangelization of the island of Taiwan, and after 30 years, a team of Chinese priests having been led by the late ...