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SUMMA THEOLOGICA

Literally translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Second and Revised Edition, 1920.

PDF Version: The Summa Theologicaof St. Thomas Aquinas

[Letter] [A4] Prologue
Ia First Part
Ia IIae First Part of the Second Part
IIa IIae Second Part of the Second Part
IIIa Third Part
Suppl. IIIae Supplement to the Third Part
[Letter] [A4] Complete text as a single PDF file (13.3 MB)

Web version for Online Reading of the complete text.

NewAdvent.org Version

PRIMA PARS.
Sacred Doctrine. The One God. The Blessed Trinity. Creation. The Angels. The Six Days. Man. The Government of Creatures.

PRIMA SECUNDÆ PARTIS.
 Man’s Last End. Human Acts. Passions. Habits. Vice and Sin. Law. Grace.

SECUNDA SECUNDÆ PARTIS.
Faith. Hope. Charity. Prudence. Justice. Fortitude. Temperance. Acts Which Pertain to Certain Men.

TERTIA PARS.
The Incarnation. The Life of Christ. Sacraments. Baptism. Confirmation. The Holy Eucharist. Penance.

SUPPLEMENTUM TERTIÆ PARTIS.
Penance (continued). Extreme Unction. Holy Orders. Matrimony. The Resurrection. Appendices.

Companion to the Summa

http://www.domcentral.org/farrell/companion/

Study Guide for Aquinas for Armchair Theologians

http://www.ppcbooks.com/pdf/study_guides/SG_Aquinas.pdf

Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O. P.
REALITY—A Synthesis Of Thomistic Thought

Preface
Chapter 1: Philosophical writings
Chapter 2: Theological works
Chapter 3: Thomistic commentators
Chapter 4: Intelligible being and first principles
Chapter 5: Act and potency
Chapter 6: Nature of theological work
Chapter 7: Proofs of god’s existence
Chapter 8: Divine eminence
Chapter 9: God’s knowledge
Chapter 10: God’s will and God’s love
Chapter 11: Providence and predestination
Chapter 12: Omnipotence
Chapter 13: Augustine and Thomas
Chapter 14: Divine processions
Chapter 15: Divine relations
Chapter 16: Divine persons
Chapter 17: Notional acts
Chapter 18: Equality and union
Chapter 19: Trinity naturally unknowable
Chapter 20: Proper names and appropriations
Chapter 21: Indwelling of the blessed trinity
Chapter 22: Sources
Chapter 23: Angelic nature and knowledge
Chapter 24: Angelic will
Chapter 25: Angelic merit and demerit
Chapter 26: Treatise on man
Chapter 27: Nature of the soul
Chapter 28: Union of soul with body
Chapter 29: Faculties of the soul
Chapter 30: Separated soul
Chapter 31: Original sin
Chapter 32: Introduction
Chapter 33: Hypostatic union
Chapter 34: Consequences of the hypostatic union
Chapter 35: Freedom and impeccability
Chapter 36: Christ’s victory and passion
Chapter 37: Mariology
Chapter 38: Sacraments in general
Chapter 39: Transubstantiation
Chapter 40: Sacrifice of the mass
Chapter 41: Attrition and contrition
Chapter 42: Reviviscence of merit
Chapter 43: Treatise on the church
Chapter 44: Soul’s immutability after death
Chapter 45: Man’s ultimate purpose and goal
Chapter 46: Human acts
Chapter 47: Virtues and vices
Chapter 48: Law
Chapter 49: Treatise on grace
Chapter 50: Theological virtues
Chapter 51: Moral virtues
Chapter 52: Christian perfection
Chapter 53: Charismatic graces
Chapter 54: Conclusion
Chapter 55: Twenty-four Thomistic theses
Chapter 56: Realism and first principles
Chapter 57: Realism and pragmatism
Chapter 58: Ontological personality
Chapter 59: Efficacious grace
Endnotes

More Links:

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Tips on Reading Aquinas

(from http://www.bluffton.edu/~humanities/1/st_tips.htm)

As a medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas wrote in a style rather different than we are used to. To understand that style, it helps to think for a moment about what an argument should include to be convincing:

  1. It should define the problem.
  2. It should note the most important positions that other people have taken on the problem and not hide from their best counter-arguments.
  3. If there is precedent for the author’s position in others, it should note that.
  4. It should however provide its own case and not just lean on the authority of others.
  5. It should answer the objections of the counter-arguments.

That, in a nutshell, is what every “article” in Aquinas’s Summa Theologica does:

  1. The title, in the form of a question, defines the problem.
  2. There is a list of the best standard objections to the position that Aquinas will take.
  3. There is a very brief rebuttal (“on the contrary”) drawn from some previous authoritative figure.
  4. There is Aquinas’s own argument (“I answer that”).
  5. There are replies to the objections listed in #2 unless Aquinas’s main argument has already dealt with them.

The problem for those of us who haven’t studied lots of medieval debates is that the list of “objections” often cites people and positions that we have never heard of. It is easy to get bogged down in these and worry that you’re missing something you need, and never get to the heart of the matter. So I pass on a tip that my own professor of Aquinas gave me when I was discouraged. Read Aquinas this way:

  1. Read the title and the first sentence of the first objection. That sentence will almost always tell you the exact opposite of Aquinas’s position.
  2. Then read the “on the contrary” paragraph. This will complement Aquinas’s position.
  3. Now read Aquinas’s main answer.
  4. Also read the replies to see if Aquinas adds anything important. Sometimes his most interesting comments are here. But if not don’t get bogged down here.
  5. If you get interested in one of these replies, look back at the original objection to which it corresponds. It might make more sense now, and provide you with clues and background.