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    "name": "Opera Omnia Sancti Thomae (Complete Works of Thomas Aquinas)",
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    "note": "Summa Theologiae in the Dominican Fathers' public-domain English translation (1920s, via newadvent.org) and Summa Contra Gentiles in Joseph Rickaby SJ's translation (Of God and His Creatures, London 1905, via CCEL). Latin parallel (Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880) rendered inline below each English passage. Eight Disputed Questions and Quodlibet works now carry Vivès Latin (project-original English in progress). The remaining 43 works are queued; see /about/translations/.",
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      "name": "Summa Theologiae",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1268,
      "translator": "Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 1920s (English); Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin)",
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      "subtitle": "Summa Theologiae — the great pedagogical Summa",
      "blurb": "Aquinas's pedagogical masterpiece, composed 1265-1273 for beginners in theology — though by Aquinas's standard of beginner. Three parts: *Prima Pars* (God and creation), *Prima Secundae* + *Secunda Secundae* (the moral life and the virtues), *Tertia Pars* (Christ, the sacraments — incomplete at Aquinas's death). The architectonic crown of scholastic theology.",
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      "name": "Summa Contra Gentiles",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
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      "form": "scholastic philosophical summa",
      "subtitle": "Summa contra Gentiles — the missionary Summa",
      "blurb": "Aquinas's four-book treatise written c. 1259-1265 in part for the use of Dominican missionaries to Muslims and Jews — arguing for the truths of the Christian faith from principles accessible to philosophical reason (Books I-III) and from Scripture (Book IV). Often called the *Summa Philosophica* in contrast to the *Summa Theologiae*.",
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      "name": "Disputed Questions On Truth",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1257,
      "translator": "Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin); project translation in progress",
      "form": "scholastic disputed questions",
      "subtitle": "Disputed Questions On Truth",
      "blurb": "*Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate* — Aquinas's earliest extended disputed-question series (1256-1259), 29 questions covering the metaphysics of truth, knowledge, the rational creature, conscience, providence, prophecy, and grace. Latin from the Vivès edition (Paris 1871-1880); English in progress through the project translation pipeline.",
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      "name": "Disputed Questions On the Power of God",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1265,
      "translator": "Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin); project translation in progress",
      "form": "scholastic disputed questions",
      "subtitle": "Disputed Questions On the Power of God",
      "blurb": "*Quaestiones Disputatae de Potentia Dei* — ten questions on the divine power, creation ex nihilo, the procession of creatures, the Trinity, and the divine simplicity (c. 1265-1266, Rome). Latin from the Vivès edition; English in progress.",
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      "name": "Disputed Questions On Evil",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1270,
      "translator": "Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin); project translation in progress",
      "form": "scholastic disputed questions",
      "subtitle": "Disputed Questions On Evil",
      "blurb": "*Quaestiones Disputatae de Malo* — sixteen questions on the ontology and ethics of evil, sin, the will, the passions, and the demons (c. 1266-1272, Paris). Latin from the Vivès edition; English in progress.",
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      "slug": "qdvirtutibus",
      "name": "Disputed Questions On the Virtues",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1272,
      "translator": "Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin); project translation in progress",
      "form": "scholastic disputed questions",
      "subtitle": "Disputed Questions On the Virtues",
      "blurb": "*Quaestiones Disputatae de Virtutibus* — five disputed questions on virtue in common, on charity, on fraternal correction, on hope, and on the cardinal virtues (c. 1271-1272). Latin from the Vivès edition; English in progress.",
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      "name": "Disputed Question On Spiritual Creatures",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1267,
      "translator": "Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin); project translation in progress",
      "form": "scholastic disputed question",
      "subtitle": "Disputed Question On Spiritual Creatures",
      "blurb": "*Quaestio Disputata de Spiritualibus Creaturis* — a single eleven-article disputed question on the angels and the human rational soul as spiritual substances (c. 1267-1268, Italy). Latin from the Vivès edition; English in progress.",
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      "slug": "qdanima",
      "name": "Disputed Question On the Soul",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1266,
      "translator": "Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin); project translation in progress",
      "form": "scholastic disputed question",
      "subtitle": "Disputed Question On the Soul",
      "blurb": "*Quaestio Disputata de Anima* — a single twenty-one-article disputed question on the human soul: its substantial unity, its relation to the body, its faculties, and its state after death (c. 1265-1266, Italy). Latin from the Vivès edition; English in progress.",
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      "slug": "qdunione",
      "name": "Disputed Question On the Union of the Incarnate Word",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1272,
      "translator": "Vivès edition, Paris 1871-1880 (Latin); project translation in progress",
      "form": "scholastic disputed question",
      "subtitle": "Disputed Question On the Union of the Incarnate Word",
      "blurb": "*Quaestio Disputata de Unione Verbi Incarnati* — a single five-article disputed question on the hypostatic union of divine and human nature in Christ (c. 1272, Paris). Latin from the Vivès edition; English in progress.",
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      "name": "Quodlibetal Questions I-XII",
      "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
      "year_approx": 1269,
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      "form": "scholastic quodlibetal questions",
      "subtitle": "Quodlibetal Questions I-XII",
      "blurb": "*Quaestiones de Quolibet* — twelve sets of quodlibetal questions raised by students and disputed by Aquinas in Advent and Lent (Quodlibets I-VI from his second Paris regency 1269-1272; VII-XII from earlier teaching periods). Latin from the Vivès edition; English in progress.",
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