Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
A Critical Guide

Applies cutting-edge research and in-depth critical analysis to Aquinas' most influential work, engaging with ethics, metaphysics, theology, and law.

Jeffrey Hause (Edited by)

9781107521438, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 January 2020

282 pages, 3 b/w illus.
23 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.45 kg

Alone among Thomas Aquinas' works, the Summa Theologiae contains well-developed and integrated discussions of metaphysics, ethics, law, human action, and the divine nature. The essays in this volume, by scholars representing varied approaches to the study of Aquinas, offer thorough, cutting-edge expositions and analyses of these topics and show how they relate to Aquinas' larger system of thought. The volume also examines the reception of the Summa Theologiae from the thirteenth century to the present day, showing how scholars have understood and misunderstood this key text - and how, even after seven centuries of interpretation, we still have much to learn from it. Detailed and accessible, this book will be highly important for scholars and students of medieval philosophy and theology.

Introduction Jeffrey Hause
1. On what there is in Aquinas Robert Pasnau
2. Dead ends, bad form: the positivity of evil in the Summa Theologiae Stephen L. Brock
3. The Summa Theologiae on what God is not Brian Davies
4. The trinity J. T. Paasch
5. Aquinas on the soul: some intriguing conundrums Marilyn McCord Adams
6. Emotion and desire in the Summa Nicholas E. Lombardo, OP
7. Aquinas on moral progress Tobias Hoffmann
8. Practical reason and normativity Matthias Perkams
9. The natural law Jean Porter
10. Natural reason and supernatural faith Thomas Osborne, Jr
11. The significance of Christology in the Summa Theologiae Michael Gorman
12. From theology to philosophy: the changing status of the Summa, 1500–2000 Jacob Schmutz.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM], Nature & existence of God [HRAB1], Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology [HPJ], Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 [HPCB]