![]() ![]() ![]() PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Martyn Swain brings clarity and experience to this final segment of Aquinas’ magnum opus. The translation is by Father Laurence Shapcote of the Dominican Order. He intended it to be the sum of all known learning as explained according to the philosophy of Aristotle (384322 bce) and his Arabian commentators (which was being introduced to western European thought at. The Supplement closes with two Appendices largely addressing the subject of Purgatory. Summa theologiae, also spelled Summa theologica, also called the Summa, in Roman Catholicism, a systematic compendium of theology written by Thomas Aquinas between about 12. Other general topics covered are Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, Matrimony and the Resurrection. It opens with a continuation of the section on Penance, left unfinished on the death of Aquinas. Fra Rainaldo drew on an earlier work by Aquinas, the Commentary on the Fourth Book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard, to produce the Supplement to the Third Part, in which a further 99 Questions are dealt with. However, the overall scheme was brought to a conclusion by Fra Rainaldo da Piperno (c1230-c1290), a life-long friend and associate of Aquinas. ![]() Drawing on a wide range of Christian sources - and, controversially, on Greek and Latin philosophers as well as Arabian commentators - he sought to explicate matters of doctrine through a specific scheme of Question, Article, Objection, Answer and Reply.īefore his death, Aquinas completed the first 90 Questions of the Third Part. Thomas Aquinas (c1225-1274) died before he could complete his ambitious plan for Summa Theologica, described as ‘a systematic compendium’ of Roman Catholic theology. ![]()
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