Thomas Aquinass Summa Theologiae

Introduction

Acknowledgements

The Setting Of The Summa Theologiae
Leonard Boyle
Prelude To The Five Ways
Victor White
The Five Ways
John Wippel
Form And Existence
Peter Geach
Aquinas On What God Is Not
Brian Davies
The Unity Of Body And Soul
Robert Pasnau
The Nature Of The Intellect
Anthony Kenny
The Immortality Of The Soul
Herbert McCabe
Aquinas’ Account Of Freedom: Intellect And Will
Eleonore Stump
Habits And Virtues
Bonnie Kent
Natural Law: Incommensurable Readings
Fergus Kerr
Suggested Readings

Additional Info
Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of the origin of the universe and of the things to be found within it, especially human beings.

Aquinas wrote many works, but his greatest achievement is undoubtedly the Summa Theologiae. This presents his most mature thinking and is the best introduction to his philosophical (and theological) ideas. Few secondary books on Aquinas focus solely on the Summa, but the present volume does just that. Including work by some of the best Aquinas scholars of the last half decade, it provides a solid introduction to one of the landmarks of western thinking.