Summa Totius Theologiae D. Thomae Aquinatis...Translated from Latin: Summary of the Entire Theology of Thomas Aquinas Doctor of The Church, Order of Preachers with Commentaries by The Most Reverend Lord Thomas...Cardinal Priest of the Holy Roman Church...Included are His Various Supplementary Remarks to this Edition Which have Not Been Incorporated into the Author's Writings. With a very accurate Index by the Same Author. First Part, to which is added the entire Treatise of ST. Thomas on the Omnipotence of God, Divine Foreknowledge, Predestination, and Reprobation, faithfully compiled from all the works of The Author, with a commentary by Chrysotom Javelli, of the same Order. Latest Edition with Many Additions. 7 parts bound in 4 volumes.

Summa Totius Theologiae D. Thomae Aquinatis...Translated from Latin: Summary of the Entire Theology of Thomas Aquinas Doctor of The Church, Order of Preachers with Commentaries by The Most Reverend Lord Thomas...Cardinal Priest of the Holy Roman Church...Included are His Various Supplementary Remarks to this Edition Which have Not Been Incorporated into the Author's Writings. With a very accurate Index by the Same Author. First Part, to which is added the entire Treatise of ST. Thomas on the Omnipotence of God, Divine Foreknowledge, Predestination, and Reprobation, faithfully compiled from all the works of The Author, with a commentary by Chrysotom Javelli, of the same Order. Latest Edition with Many Additions. 7 parts bound in 4 volumes.

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Thomas Aquinas (b.1225 –1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily. Thomas was a proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. He argued that God is the source of the light of natural reason and the light of faith. He embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity.[9] He has been described as "the most influential thinker of the medieval period"[10] and "the greatest of the medieval philosopher-theologians".[11] According to the English philosopher Anthony Kenny, Thomas was "one of the greatest philosophers of the Western world".[12]

Thomas's best-known works are the unfinished Summa Theologica, or Summa Theologiae (1265–1274), the Disputed Questions on Truth (1256–1259) and the Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265). His commentaries on Christian Scripture and on Aristotle also form an important part of his body of work. He is also notable for his Eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church's liturgy.[13] The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica (transl. 'Summary of Theology'), often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church. It is a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church, intended to be an instructional guide for theology students, including seminarians and the literate laity. Presenting the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, topics of the Summa follow the following cycle: God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God. Although unfinished, it is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature." It remains Aquinas' "most perfect work, the fruit of his mature years, in which the thought of his whole life is condensed". Throughout the Summa, Aquinas cites Christian, Muslim, Hebrew, and Pagan sources, including, but not limited to: Christian Sacred Scripture, Aristotle, Augustine of Hippo, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Ghazali, Boethius, John of Damascus, Paul the Apostle, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides, Anselm of Canterbury, Plato, Cicero, and John Scotus Eriugena. The Summa is a more structured and expanded version of Aquinas's earlier Summa contra Gentiles, though the two were written for different purposes. The Summa Theologiae intended to explain the Christian faith to beginning theology students, whereas the Summa contra Gentiles, to explain the Christian faith and defend it in hostile situations, with arguments adapted to the intended circumstances of its use, each article refuting a certain belief or a specific heresy.