Books on St. Thomas Aquinas

The Tour of the Summa is the ultimate tool to understanding Saint Thomas Aquinas and his insightful philosophical writings. This book is a complete, chapter-by-chapter restatement of St. Thomas’ work making it easy to digest and enjoy. Author Msgr. Glenn brings a lifetime of teaching and wisdom to his masterpiece, Explore the totality of St. Thomas’ thought without being overwhelmed by the size of all 5 volumes! Get an in-depth look at Aquinas’s writing style, themes and arguments with this o...

In this book, Peter Kreeft offers readers a comprehensive view of Thomas Aquinas' seminal work, The Summa Theologica. This timeless volume follows the great medieval theologian in his explorations of faith and reason, revelation and philosophy, and the Biblical and Greco-Roman heritages. Kreeft combines the great philosopher's passages with detailed analyses written in a professional tone that makes the work accessible to modern readers. The volume features powerful essays by Kreeft related t...

25 popes consider St. Thomas Aquinas the Church's preeminent theologian because he saw truths about God, our Faith, and the Christian life which had never been seen before. But do you have time to read the 3,000 pages in his Summa Theologica? Do you struggle to understand the abstract theological terms he uses in On Being and Essence? Perhaps you, like so many of us, desire to be taught by such a great philosopher as Aquinas, but feel he is well beyond your reach. Not anymore. In The One-Minu...

Introducing the must-have for any theologian or philosopher’s collection – A Shorter Summa, from the renown author, Peter Kreeft. This shortened overview of the iconic Summa Theologica provides an elucidating and persuasive look into one of the greatest philosophical works ever penned. It captures the essential elements of St. Thomas Aquinas’ vast knowledge in a 500 page tome that is easy to understand. Contained within its pages are excerpts, explanations and introductions written by Kreeft ...

In the struggle to find the touchstone between faith and reason, modern psychology is often a very problematic area for Catholics. Why? Because post-Freudian psychology is based on a mistaken idea that moral laws lead to neurosis. It argues that we must be freed from morality in order to become psychologically whole. In this powerful and assuring book, Fr. Brian Mullady examines the nature of a healthy Christian emotional life, and ultimately provides the Catholic answer to the problematic th...

Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas.  From a lifetime of studying the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, popular author Peter Kreeft says that his amazement has continually increased not only at Aquinas' theoretical, philosophical brilliance and sanity, but also at his personal, practical wisdom, his "existential bite." Yet this second dimension of St. Thomas has usually been eclipsed by the other. Kreeft wrote this book to help bring that sun out from its eclipse. He provides easily dig...