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A Shorter Summa: The Most Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica is unavailable, but you can change that!

St. Thomas Aquinas is universally recognized as one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. His writings are both clear and profound; he is a master of metaphysics and technical terminology, yet full of both theoretical and practical wisdom. The Summa Theologica is timeless, but particularly important today because of his synthesis of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the...

“Question”, and what we mean by a “question”—a specific, single interrogative sentence—is what he means by an “Article”, e.g., “Whether God Exists, “Whether the Inequality of Things Is from God?”, “Whether Sorrow Is the Same as Pain?” Each Article begins by formulating in its title a single question in such a way that only two answers are possible: yes or no. St. Thomas does this, not because he thinks philosophy or theology is as simple as a true-false exam, but because he wants to make an issue
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