Summa Theologica Part Iii Tertia Pars Annotated Edition

Summa Theologica Part III (Tertia Pars) Thomas Aquinas - The Summa Theologiae (Latin: Compendium of Theology or Theological Compendium; also subsequently called the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa, written 1265-1274) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274), and although unfinished, "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature." It is intended as a manual for beginners in theology and a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God. (courtesy of wikipedia.com).This is part 3, 'Tertia Pars'.The way which leads to God is Christ, the theme of part III. It can be asserted that the incarnation was absolutely necessary. The Unio between the Logos and the human nature is a "relation" between the divine and the human nature which comes about by both natures being brought together in the one person of the Logos. An incarnation can be spoken of only in the sense that the human nature began to be in the eternal hypostasis of the divine nature. So Christ is unum since his human nature lacks the hypostasis. The person of the Logos, accordingly, has assumed the impersonal human nature, and in such way that the assumption of the soul became the means for the assumption of the body. This union with the human soul is the gratia unionis which leads to the impartation of the gratia habitualis from the Logos to the human nature. Thereby all human potentialities are made perfect in Jesus. Besides the perfections given by the vision of God, which Jesus enjoyed from the beginning, he receives all others by the gratia habitualis.

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Volume IV (Part III) of Thomas Aquinas's masterwork of Christian theology. A compendium of Catholic theology of the time, Aquinas explores nearly all aspects of theology, while synthesizing it with Aristotelean philosophy.

The Summa Theologiae, Tertia Pars, Q. 1-90, contains St. Thomas Aquinas' treatises on the Incarnation, the life of Christ, the sacraments in general, and in particular, baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, and ends with penance. St. Thomas never finished writing the Summa, which left the last three sacraments unexamined. His students later compiled the Supplementum based on his work which contains a treatment on the last three sacraments. The Supplementum is volume 5 of this series.The Summa Theologiae is one of the greatest works of Christian theology. In it St. Thomas Aquinas meticulously lays out a framework of Christian theology that spans a wide variety of topics including God, man, the Trinity, Christ, morality, and the sacraments. The Summa has been a source of inspiration for philosophers, theologians, saints, and Popes since the 13th century.This book is volume 4 of Henderson Publishing's five volume set of the Summa Theologiae. This edition has reformatted the Summa to strike a balance between affordability and beauty. The translation used is the one by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province.

No collection of philosophy or theology is complete without this classic work of Thomas Aquinas. Designed for study, this edition makes the Summa Theologiae accessible to everyone.