SUMMA THEOLOGICA
This is the best work of St. Thomas Aquinas' and it is an encylopedia-length work on Catholic theology. It's called "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature."
ON PRAYER AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE
This book is good historical perspective on things like praying to the Saints and to religious orders. St. Thomas’ thought and writing structure can be found and it's also including:
- A theological question or statement.
- Objections to the question or the statement.
- A quotation of an opinion or a statement that contradicts the objections.
- The answer to the question. 5. The refutation of the objections.
Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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