Contents

SECOND PART OF THE SECOND PART (QQ. 1-148)

TREATISE ON PRUDENCE AND JUSTICE

TREATISE ON FORTITUDE AND TEMPERANCE

The reappearance of the Summa in English is a great publishing event. This brilliant synthesis of Christian thought has had a decisive and permanent impact on religion since the thirteenth century and has become substantially the official teaching of the Catholic Church.
The Summa Theologica, as the title indicates, is a summing up of all that can be known about God and humanity’s relations with God. It is divided into three parts dealing with God, man, and the God-man respectively. It consists of 38 tracts, 631 questions, about 3000 articles, 10,000 objections and their answers. The new edition contains the complete text, the supplements, a chart showing the structure of the work, and an analytical index.
The present edition of the Summa was translated into English by the Fathers of the Dominican Province and first appeared in 1911. A revised edition was published in London in 1920 and the first American edition was issued by Benziger Brothers in New York in 1947. The five-volume printing now offered is a reproduction of that famous Benziger edition.
The work is easy to consult and convenient to handle. It should be of inestimable value to students of religion in college, seminarians, libraries, educators, professionals, clergy, religious, and laity, to all who are interested in core Christian thought.