Summa Theologiae | |
St. Thomas Aquinas | |
This beginners' textbook in theology, never finished by | |
St. Thomas Aquinas, sets out to summarize the entirety of | |
sacred theology. Used as the primary teacher of sacred | |
theology in seminaries for centuries, it had the unique | |
privilege of being kept open on the altar during the Council | |
of Trent, so that the fathers of the Council could always | |
and immediately draw from its wisdom, the only book besides | |
the Sacred Scriptures themselves accorded this honor. The | |
great Leo XIII, of happy memory, stated in his encyclical | |
Aeterni Patris that St. Thomas Aquinas should be the | |
basis for any Catholic philosophical and theological | |
education, and this is the greatest of St. Thomas's works. | |
Its value cannot be overstated. | |
Prima Pars (PDF) (free) | |
Prima Secundæ (PDF) (free) | |
Secunda Secundæ (PDF) (free) | |
Tertia Pars (PDF) (free) |