Summa Theologiae: Translation
Overview
The most important work of the towering intellectual of the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae remains one of the great seminal works of philosophy and theology, while extending to subjects as diverse as law and government, sacraments and liturgy, and psychology and ethics. The Aquinas Institute is therefore proud to announce the publication of the Summa Theologiae in a bilingual edition with Latin and English in parallel columns. This resource contains the English translation.
Top Highlights
“The second way is from the nature of the efficient cause.” (Volume 13, Page 21)
“things signified by words have themselves also a signification” (Volume 13, Page 15)
“The third way is taken from possibility and necessity” (Volume 13, Page 22)
“Therefore, in order that the salvation of men might be brought about more fitly and more surely, it was necessary that they should be taught divine truths by divine revelation. It was therefore necessary that besides philosophical science built up by reason, there should be a sacred science learned through revelation.” (Volume 13, Page 4)
“that first signification whereby words signify things belongs to the first sense, the historical or literal” (Volume 13, Page 15)