Opera Omnia Sancti Thomae (Complete Works of Thomas Aquinas)
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/.
Source context· Greco-Christian stream · Greco-Latin cultural age
- Stream
- Greco-Christian
- Cultural age
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 1250 CE
Summa Theologiae
Summa Theologiae — the great pedagogical Summa
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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Summa contra Gentiles — the missionary Summa
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.
4 sections · 542,758 words
Read →Disputed Questions On Truth
Disputed Questions On Truth
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.
1 sections · 396,196 words
Read →Disputed Questions On the Power of God
Disputed Questions On the Power of God
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.
1 sections · 186,290 words
Read →Disputed Questions On Evil
Disputed Questions On Evil
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.
1 sections · 190,420 words
Read →Disputed Questions On the Virtues
Disputed Questions On the Virtues
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.
1 sections · 85,986 words
Read →Disputed Question On Spiritual Creatures
Disputed Question On Spiritual Creatures
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.
1 sections · 76,244 words
Read →Disputed Question On the Soul
Disputed Question On the Soul
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.
1 sections · 131,535 words
Read →Disputed Question On the Union of the Incarnate Word
Disputed Question On the Union of the Incarnate Word
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.
1 sections · 23,317 words
Read →Quodlibetal Questions I-XII
Quodlibetal Questions I-XII
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.
1 sections · 127,708 words
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