The Summa Theologica
St Thomas Aquinas's summation of Christian theology, disputed article by article.
515 Questions · four Parts · one work
The four Parts
Prima Pars — First Part
Prima Pars — God, creation, the angels, and the nature of man (QQ 1–119).
119 Questions →Prima Secundæ — First Part of the Second Part
Prima Secundæ — the end of man, human acts, passions, habits, virtue, law and grace (QQ 1–114).
114 Questions →Secunda Secundæ — Second Part of the Second Part
Secunda Secundæ — the theological and cardinal virtues, and the states of life (QQ 1–189).
189 Questions →Tertia Pars — Third Part
Tertia Pars — the Incarnation, the life of Christ, and the sacraments (QQ 1–90).
90 Questions →Concepts
Entries in the Library
Charity
Charity is the third and greatest theological virtue: for Aquinas it is friendship with God — a love, poured in by grace, by which we love God for his own sake and our neighbour in him. It is “the form of the virtues.”
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Faith
In Thomas Aquinas’s theology, faith is a theological virtue: an act of the intellect assenting to divine truth at the command of a will moved by grace — firmer than opinion, yet concerned with things unseen.
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Hope
In Aquinas’s theology, hope is the second theological virtue: a movement of the will, raised by grace, that reaches toward eternal happiness as a future good — arduous, but possible to attain with God’s help.
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