It is a monumental work, which in printed form extends over five volumes and three thousand densely printed pages. The Catholic Church has over the centuries regularly and consistently reaffirmed the central importance of Thomas's work for understanding its teachings concerning the Christian revelation, and his close textual commentaries on Aristotle represent a cultural resource which is now receiving increased recognition.Ī few weeks ago, after nearly three and a half years of on and off reading, I finally finished St. The result was a new modus vivendi between faith and philosophy which survived until the rise of the new physics.

In two stints as a regent master Thomas defended the mendicant orders and, of greater historical importance, countered both the Averroistic interpretations of Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy. Thomas completed his studies at the University of Paris, which had been formed out of the monastic schools on the Left Bank and the cathedral school at Notre Dame. When he joined the Dominican Order he went north to study with Albertus Magnus, author of a paraphrase of the Aristotelian corpus. It was at Naples too that Thomas had his first extended contact with the new learning. Thomas, after early studies at Montecassino, moved on to the University of Naples, where he met members of the new Dominican Order. This crisis flared up just as universities were being founded. He is honored as a saint and 'Doctor of the Church' in the Roman Catholic tradition.Īquinas lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that had obtained for centuries. This set is located in Stacks 3A Center, (BQ 6822 1871).Thomas Aquinas (sometimes styled Thomas of Aquin or Aquino), was a Dominican friar and priest notable as a scholastic theologian and philosopher. 34) provides and index to the entire set. Each volume includes an index (Quaestionum et Articulorum) at the end of the book. The original set can be found in the Mullen library stacks folios (1 South, BQ 6822 1852) The set is available in the Religious Studies and Philosophy Library, room 314 (BQ 6822 1948). Its introduction (written in English) gives a chronology of Thomas's works, discusses the structure of his writings, lists printings done of complete works of Aquinas, looks at the life of Thomas, and gives a cursory glance at research done on Thomas Aquinas.

Its twenty-five volumes aim to give you the complete works of St. This series is a reprint of the original Parma series from 1852-1873 and is considered one of the definitive Thomistic series the library possesses. Opera Omnia, reprint of Parma Edition (1852-1873)

Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas