Aquinas's Summa

by Torrell, Jean-Pierre; Guevin, Benedict M.

• ISBN13: 9780813213989
• ISBN10: 0813213983
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr

Summary

"In this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Pierre Torrell brings his expertise to bear on Aquinas's Summa Theologiae. Torrell begins with an expert account of Aquinas's life and then turns his attention to the overall structures and specific content of the Summa. He considers the literary and doctrinal context of the Summa, situating the work within the overall literary corpus of the Angelic Doctor and examining Aquinas's Christian, Greek, Jewish, and Arab sources." "The second half of the book surveys the history of the Summa's influence from Aquinas's death in 1274 through the twentieth century. Torrell traces the fate of Aquinas's Summa from its slow start, through the eventual emergence of Thomism, to its widespread acceptance. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed the ultimate triumph of Aquinas's work with the encyclical Aeternis patris, and in the wake of Vatican II there has been renewed interest in its content and method."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
The Author and His Work	1	(16)
Early Formative Years	1	(3)
First Teaching Experience at Paris (1252-1259)	4	(3)
Return to Italy: Orvieto (1261-1265)	7	(3)
Stay in Rome (1265-1268)	10	(3)
Return to Paris (1268-1272)	13	(2)
Naples: The Last Months and Death (1272-1274)	15	(2)
The Summa: Structures and Content I	17	(20)
The First Part	18	(9)
``Sacra Doctrina''	19	(2)
God	21	(3)
God in His Work	24	(3)
The Second Part	27	(10)
A Circular Plan	27	(3)
The Second Volume	30	(1)
Human Acts	31	(2)
Law and Grace	33	(4)
The Summa: Structures and Content II	37	(26)
The Virtues and the Vices	37	(2)
A Morality of Virtues	39	(2)
Major Themes of This Second Stage	41	(7)
The Theological Virtues	42	(2)
The Queen of the Cardinal Virtues	44	(1)
The Connection of the Virtues	45	(2)
Particular Situations	47	(1)
The Third Part	48	(2)
A Review of the Structure of the Summa	48	(2)
Christ	50	(8)
Reasons of Appropriateness	51	(2)
The Humanity of Christ	53	(3)
The ``Mysteries'' of Christ's Life	56	(2)
The Sacraments	58	(4)
A Sanctifying Reality	59	(2)
Body and Spirit	61	(1)
The Uncompleted End	62	(1)
The Literary and Doctrinal Milieu	63	(23)
Literary Panorama	63	(8)
``Lectura''	64	(1)
Questions and Quodlibets	65	(3)
Sentences	68	(1)
Summas	69	(2)
The Christian Sources	71	(5)
The Bible	72	(2)
The Fathers	74	(2)
Greeks, Jews, and Arabs	76	(10)
Aristotle	76	(2)
Medieval Neoplatonism	78	(2)
The Stoics	80	(1)
Avicenna	81	(2)
Averroes	83	(1)
Maimonides	84	(2)
The Summa through History	86	(20)
First Period (1274-1450)	87	(5)
First Polemics	87	(3)
The Beginnings of Thomism	90	(2)
Second Period (1450-1800)	92	(14)
The Advent of the Summa	92	(4)
Cajetan	96	(2)
Vitoria and the School of Salamanca	98	(3)
John of St. Thomas	101	(2)
The Jesuits and the Carmelites	103	(3)
The Summa in the Twentieth Century	106	(25)
Aeterni Patris and Its Consequences	108	(12)
First Fruits	108	(3)
Renewal	111	(3)
Translations	114	(2)
Vatican II and Its Immediate Aftermath	116	(1)
Thomism and Medievalism	117	(3)
The Current State of Affairs	120	(11)
Publications	120	(7)
Three Institutions	127	(4)
Conclusion	131	(4)
Annotated Bibliography	135	(4)
Index	139