A Tour of the Summa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781684226887)

2022 Reprint of the 1960 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The study of God and his revelation is the object of theology. There are few better overviews of theology from a Catholic perspective than the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas. However, the Summa is a large work written in the 12th century. Monsignor Paul Glenn, a teacher of philosophy and theology, has written a precis of the famous work which will allow a thirsting soul to savor the wisdom of St Thomas is as short a time as possible. It is a work that will amply repay repeated readings and in a format that is easily accessible for the modern catholic always in a hurry. (Cited http: //www.catholictheology.info/summa-theologica/

"A Tour of the Summa is not a translation, not a digest, not a selection of parts called basic, or best. It is a journey through the entire Summa from beginning to end, and it furnishes a tourist's view of the scope and content of that master work. It is a condensed paraphrase of the essential teaching of the Summa, so presented as to enable the reader to turn instantly to the exact locus in St. Thomas for full treatment of each point discussed . . ."

"The present work holds strictly to the major divisions of the Summa, but omits objections and replies to objections."- from the Preface