Summa Theologiae: Translation
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Overview
The most important work of the towering intellectual of the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae remains one of the great seminal works of philosophy and theology, while extending to subjects as diverse as law and government, sacraments and liturgy, and psychology and ethics. The Aquinas Institute is therefore proud to announce the publication of the Summa Theologiae in a bilingual edition with Latin and English in parallel columns. This resource contains the English translation.
Top Highlights
“The second way is from the nature of the efficient cause.” (Volume 13, Page 21)
“things signified by words have themselves also a signification” (Volume 13, Page 15)
“The third way is taken from possibility and necessity” (Volume 13, Page 22)
“Therefore, in order that the salvation of men might be brought about more fitly and more surely, it was necessary that they should be taught divine truths by divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that besides philosophical science built up by reason, there should be a sacred science learned through revelation.” (Volume 13, Page 4)
“that first signification whereby words signify things belongs to the first sense, the historical or literal” (Volume 13, Page 15)
- Title: Summa Theologiae: Translation
- Author: Thomas Aquinas
- Series: Summa Theologiae, Volumes 13–22
- Publishers: Aquinas Institute, Emmaus Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 5997
- Era: era:medieval
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 › Summa theologiae; Catholic Church › Doctrines--Early works to 1800; Theology, doctrinal › Early works to 1800
- ISBNs: 9781623402068, 9781623402075, 9781623402082, 9781623402099, 9781623402105, 9781623402112, 9781623402129, 9781623402136, 9781623402204, 9781623402211, 1623402069, 1623402077, 1623402085, 1623402093, 1623402107, 1623402115, 1623402123, 1623402131, 1623402204, 1623402212
- Resource ID: LLS:SMMTHLGENG
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:53:52Z
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 Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and 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.
Unlike many currents in the Church of the time, Aquinas embraced the philosophy of Aristotle—whom he called “the Philosopher”—and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity.
His best-known works are the Disputed Questions on Truth (1256–1259), the Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265), and the unfinished but massively influential Summa Theologica (1265–1274). His commentaries on Scripture and on Aristotle also form an important part of his body of work. Furthermore, Thomas is distinguished for his eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church’s liturgy. The Catholic Church honors Thomas Aquinas as a saint and regards him as the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood, and indeed the highest expression of both natural reason and speculative theology. In modern times, under papal directives, the study of his works was long used as a core of the required program of study for those seeking ordination as priests or deacons, as well as for those in religious formation and for other students of the sacred disciplines (philosophy, Catholic theology, church history, liturgy, and canon law).
Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the Catholic Church’s greatest theologians and philosophers. Pope Benedict XV declared: “This (Dominican) Order . . . acquired new luster when the Church declared the teaching of Thomas to be her own and that Doctor, honored with the special praises of the Pontiffs, the master and patron of Catholic schools.”