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A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica

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A shortened version of Kreeft’s much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was once a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. The cause of the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was once just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. In it, there may be much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a well-liked Thomist teacher and creator. St. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the most greatest philosophers who ever lived. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. He’s a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. He’s the master of common sense. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today as a result of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or in my view. It comprises the most famous and influential passages of St. Thomas’ philosophy with copious aids to understanding them.

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