Thomas' philosophy with copious aids to understanding them. A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Paperback by Peter Kreeft (Author) 193 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 16.95 44 Used from 5.60 30 New from 10.31 1 Collectible from 41. It contains the most famous and influential passages of St. This little book is designed for beginners, either for classroom use or individually. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and the classical Greco-Roman heritages. He is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet so full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. His writings combine the two fundamental ideals of philosophical writing: clarity and profundity. He has been Professor of Philosophy at Boston College for over 45 years, and has written over 60 books in philosophy and theology, including Socratic Logic, the only complete Aristotelian (common-sense, ordinary-language) logic textbook in print Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa on St. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted, arranged, introduced, and explained in footnotes here by Kreeft, a popular Thomist teacher and writer. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. This ebook cannot be sold to the United Kingdom.Ī shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica.
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