Summa Theologica Part 1 ("Prima Pars")
by St. Thomas Aquinas
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
SUMMA THEOLOGICA PART I ("Prima Pars") Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province BENZIGER BROTHERS NEW YORK DEDICATION To the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Seat of Wisdom NOTE TO THIS ELECTRONIC EDITION The text of this electronic edition was originally produced by Sandra K. Perry, Perrysburg, Ohio, and made available through the Christian Classics Ethereal Library <http://www.ccel.org>. I have eliminated unnecessary formatting in the text, corrected some errors in transcription, and added the dedication, tables of contents, Prologue, and the numbers of the questions and articles, as they appeared in the printed translation published by Benziger Brothers. Each article is now designated by part, question number, and article number in brackets, like this: > SECOND ARTICLE [I, Q. 49, Art. 2] > Whether the Supreme Good, God, Is the Cause of Evil? In a few places, where obvious errors appeared in the Benziger Brothers edition, I have corrected them by reference to a Latin text of the _Summa._ These corrections are indicated by English text in brackets. For example, in Part I, Question 45, Article 2, the first sentence in the Benziger Brothers edition begins: "Not only is it impossible that anything should be created by God...." By reference to the Latin, "non solum _non_ est impossibile a Deo aliquid creari" (emphasis added), this has been corrected to "Not only is it [not] impossible that anything should be created by God...." This electronic edition also differs from the Benziger Brothers edition in the following details (as well as the obvious lack of the original page numbers and headers):
_______________________ PROLOGUE Because the Master of Catholic Truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but also to instruct beginners (according to the Apostle: As Unto Little Ones in Christ, I Gave You Milk to Drink, Not Meat-- 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2)--we purpose in this book to treat of whatever belongs to the Christian Religion, in such a way as may tend to the instruction of beginners. We have considered that students in this Science have not seldom been hampered by what they have found written by other authors, partly on account of the multiplication of useless questions, articles, and arguments; partly also because those things that are needful for them to know are not taught according to the order of the subject-matter, but according as the plan of the book might require, or the occasion of the argument offer; partly, too, because frequent repetition brought weariness and confusion to the minds of the readers. Endeavoring to avoid these and other like faults, we shall try, by God's help, to set forth whatever is included in this Sacred Science as briefly and clearly as the matter itself may allow. NEXT: Summa Theologica (Questions 1 - 26) |
SUBMENUSumma Theologica Part 1 ("Prima Pars") by St. Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica (Questions 1 - 26) Treatise on the Most Holy Trinity (Questions 27 - 43) Treatise on the Creation (Questions 44 - 49) Treatise on the Angels (Questions 50 - 64) Treatise on the Work of the Six Days (Questions 65 - 74) Treatise on Man (Questions 75 - 102) Treatise on the Conservation and Government of Creatures (Questions 103 - 119) |
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