Holy Smokes! This document is 2963 pages long...revise and extend my previous remarks: no way I am reading this later!
Hehehe.
“Summa Theologica” was an attempt at an entire cyclopedia of Western Christian (i.e., Catholic) theology. The Catholic Church *is* the scripture-based denomination; documents like the catechism refer to Church Fathers simply because the Church Fathers explain the scripture.
LOL, that’s funny, yes this is Aquinas. But if you’re interested there are some “Aquinas for Dummies”-type books out there for us non-theologians: “The Summa of the Summa,” “A Shorter Summa,” and several others.
later,
Holy Smokes! This document is 2963 pages long...revise and extend my previous remarks: no way I am reading this later!
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time, I've got tears running down my face!!
But seriously, if you do get a chance later I'd highly recommend an attempt at it. The greatest scientific work ever written.
Do you remember those thought games that people sometimes play with questions like "If the Earth were going to blow up and you were chosen as one of the few to escape in a spaceship and continue the human race and culture elsewhere, blah blah, and you could only take one book with you other than the Holy Scriptures to fulfill this mission, what would it be?"
My choice would be the Angelic Doctor's Summa Theologica. (His Summa Contra Gentiles, written as a philosophical apologia against,but for the conversion of, the Muslims of his day, ain't bad either.)