Summa Theologica

Also known as Summa, Summa Theologiae, Summa Theologiæ

theological treatise by Thomas Aquinas

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Author: Thomas Aquinas
Language: Latin
Subject: Christian theology
Publisher: Benziger Brothers Printers to the Holy Apostolic See
Publication date: Unfinished at his death in 1274
Library of congress classification span: BX1749 .T5
Original text: Summa Theologiae at Latin Wikisource
Translation: Summa Theologiae at Wikisource

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The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica (transl. 'Summary of Theology'), often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church. It is a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church. Presenting the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, topics of the Summa follow the following cycle: God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God.

Although unfinished, it is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature." It remains Aquinas's "most perfect work, the fruit of his mature years, in which the thought of his whole life is condensed."