Summa Theologica

[ soom-uh thee-uh-loj-i-kuh, suhm-uh ]

noun

1. a philosophical and theological work (1265–74) by St. Thomas Aquinas, consisting of an exposition of Christian doctrine.

Summa Theologica

1. (1266–1273) The best-known work of Thomas Aquinas , in which he treats the whole of theology by careful analysis of arguments. In one famous section of the Summa Theologica , Aquinas discusses five ways of attempting to prove that there is a God.

Example Sentences

He entrusted his life’s theological works to Mueller, who has spent nearly two decades organizing them in a 16-volume, 25,000-page opus along the lines of Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica.”

From Seattle Times

Medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas posed similar questions in his 13th-century book Summa Theologica, which presented several arguments for God’s existence.

From Scientific American

In the “Summa Theologica,” his grand synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Christian teaching, he defended the doctrine of Hell and insisted that we should think of it as a benefit, not a bug.

From The New Yorker

Where Thomas Aquinas, in his thirteenth century “Summa Theologica,” wished to systematize all of Christian doctrine, Lem wrote a secular organon of human civilization’s entanglement with machines.

From The New Yorker

His intellectual strong suit might be more Summa Theologica — in which St. Thomas Aquinas presented five arguments for the existence of God — than the zone-blitz defense.

From New York Times