Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

The Summa Theologica or ‘summary of Theology’ is a five-volume work synthesized according to Roman Catholic beliefs inherited from the Bible and Church Tradition. It attempts to present several thousand important theological questions as systematically as possible and it includes insights from Greek philosophers, especially Aristotle. The Summa Theologica was written by Saint Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican priest, theologian and philosopher. He was considered the most important Christian thinker of the High Middle Ages and was canonized in 1323, fifty years after his death. One of his biographers has called the Summa Theologica “a cathedral of thought”, pertaining to profound contents. He worked on Summa Theologica from 1266 to 1273 and when he was nearly finished, he underwent an experience so intense that he thought that everything he had written seemed like straw. After this, he completely stopped writing and he died three months later. Summa Theologica is studied