Summa Theologica: Complete in Eighteen Volumes
Summa Theologica: Complete in Eighteen Volumes
Non nisi te, Domine. The fullest ordered account of the Christian faith ever attempted, written for beginners.
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About this edition
The Summa Theologica is the crowning work of Saint Thomas Aquinas, begun about 1265 and left unfinished at his death in 1274. Cast as a great chain of disputed questions, it moves from God, through creation and the moral life, to Christ and His sacraments, and each article keeps the full Scholastic form: the Objections, the On the contrary, the I answer that, and the Replies.
This Sanctified Souls Press edition issues it complete, divided by treatise across eighteen volumes, in the English translation of the Fathers of the English Dominican Province, on cream paper. The grounds step from warm tan on the first volume to deep umber on the last, so the set reads as one shelf.
The volumes
Prima Pars, Questions 1 to 26. Sacred doctrine, the five ways proving God's existence, and His simplicity, goodness and eternity. 312 pages.
Prima Pars, Questions 27 to 43. The processions in God, the three divine Persons, the eternal relations, and the mission of the Son and the Spirit. 180 pages.
Prima Pars, Questions 44 to 74. The procession of all things from God, the question of evil, the angels, and the six days of creation. 288 pages.
Prima Pars, Questions 75 to 102. The nature of the human soul and its union with the body, the powers of sense, intellect and free will, and the first making of man. 310 pages.
Prima Pars, Questions 103 to 119. How God governs and preserves all things, the ministry of the angels, and the guardianship of men. 172 pages.
Prima Secundae, Questions 1 to 48. Man's last end and happiness, the nature of human acts and the will, and the passions of the soul. 458 pages.
Prima Secundae, Questions 49 to 89. Habits and the virtues, the gifts and the beatitudes, and their opposites, the vices and sins. 424 pages.
Prima Secundae, Questions 90 to 114. The Treatise on Law, eternal, natural, human and divine, the Old Law and the New, and the Treatise on Grace. 358 pages.
Secunda Secundae, Questions 1 to 46. The three theological virtues, with the vices opposed to each. 472 pages.
Secunda Secundae, Questions 47 to 79. The cardinal virtue of prudence, and the opening of the Treatise on Justice with the sins against it. 300 pages.
Secunda Secundae, Questions 80 to 122. The virtues annexed to justice: religion, vows and oaths, piety, obedience, gratitude and liberality. 398 pages.
Secunda Secundae, Questions 123 to 170. The last two cardinal virtues: courage in the face of danger, and the right ordering of desire. 394 pages.
Secunda Secundae, Questions 171 to 189. Prophecy and miracles, the active and contemplative life, and the states of perfection. 268 pages.
Tertia Pars, Questions 1 to 26. The mystery of God made man, the union of the two natures in the Person of the Word, and Christ our mediator. 296 pages.
Tertia Pars, Questions 27 to 59. The Virgin and Christ's birth, His life and miracles, His Passion and death, and His Resurrection. 212 pages.
Tertia Pars, Questions 60 to 90. The sacraments in general, Baptism, Confirmation, the Holy Eucharist and transubstantiation, and Penance. 474 pages.
Supplement, Questions 1 to 68. The Third Part completed from Aquinas's earlier work: Penance, Extreme Unction, Orders and Matrimony. 552 pages.
Supplement, Questions 69 to 99. The soul after death and purgatory, the resurrection of the body, the Judgment, heaven and hell. 408 pages.
Details
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), of the Order of Preachers, Doctor of the Church
- Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province, second and revised edition, 1920
- Complete and unabridged, in full Scholastic form, in eighteen volumes
- The Supplement was compiled after Aquinas's death by his followers, from his commentary on the Sentences, to complete the Third Part
- Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper
Cover: St. Thomas Aquinas Presenting His Work to the Crucified Christ, Santi di Tito (Italian, 1536–1603), pen and brown ink with wash, c. 1593. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.
