Summa Theologica

American  

[soom-uh thee-uh-loj-i-kuh, suhm-uh] / ˈsʊm ə ˌθi əˈlɒdʒ ɪ kə, ˈsʌm ə /

noun

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

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Summa Theologica Cultural  

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.

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Example Sentences

Lastly, Thomas Aquinas’s “Summa Theologica” is influential for its arguments on the existence of God, ethics and virtue.

From The Wall Street Journal

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