Summa Theologica

Name: Summa Theologica
Author: Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and the foremost scholastic theologian of the Middle Ages. Teaching at Paris and Naples, he sought to show faith and reason in harmony, drawing Aristotle into Christian theology. His Summa Theologiae and Summa Contra Gentiles — the latter partly represented here by Of God and His Creatures — and his Catena Aurea, a chain of patristic comments on the Gospels, are in our library.

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First published: 1265
Category: Theology
Length: 2519k words · about 168 hours
Narration: 🎧 Isabella · British English

About this book

Thomas Aquinas's great systematic theology, composed in the thirteenth century and presented here in the translation of the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. In question-and-answer form it treats God and creation, human action and virtue, Christ, and the sacraments, weighing objections before giving reasoned replies. It remains the most influential theological work of the medieval Latin church.