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This reader’s guide to the Summa Theologica describes the context Aquinas’ compendium of Catholic theology emerged in, and seeks to guide the reader to an understanding as close to Aquinas’ originally meaning as possible. Loughlin also chronicles the history of how the Summa Theologica has been received, and the influence it has had through the centuries.

pastoral. To fill this “gap” in the practical theological training that the Dominican friars had traditionally received required attention to what we would today call sacramental and dogmatic or systematic theology with the purpose of putting this practical moral theology into “a full theological context.”7 The effect of this decision on Thomas’s part was the idea for and the initial composition of the Summa Theologiae, a work that endeavors to present Christian morality as something grounded in
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