Faith Meets Philosophy Online Resources

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

The Two Great Summas

The Summa Theologiae

The Summa Contra Gentiles: slightly abridged

Disputed Questions on Truth

Disputed Questions on the Power of God

The Aquinas Translation Project: seeks to proide translations of Aquinas's work not readily available heretofore
Aquinas's works in Latin

Other Important Primary Sources

The Complete Works of Aristotle

Augustine on the Internet: texts and translations, commentaries, research material, Augustinians today, images of the saint, and other ancient materials of interest. See also the online Confessions of Saint Augustine.
- Background on St. Augustine
- St. Anselm on God's Existence
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: incredibly large collection of full text sources from medieval and late medieval authors
Classical Natural Theology: a page by Dr. Michael Sudduth with several links to primary sources in natural theology among classical theologians and philosophers
Arguments for the existence of God: from an Online text and course by Dr. Philip A. Pecorino
Aeterni Patris: the encyclical by Pope Leo XIII which commends the study of St. Thomas Aquinas's works
Faith and Reason: the 1998 encyclical of Pope John Paul II which reasserts the importance of St. Thomas Aquinas as a model for bringing together faith and reason
- "'Faith and Reason': A Note on the New Encyclical": a good overview by Fr. Avery Dulles for America magazine
- Virtual Religion Index: extensive series of links and resources to various scholarly works on religious issues in philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion: An online text and course by Dr. Philip A. Pecorino
- The history of western philosophy in a helpful summary outline

Information on Aquinas

Biography and Writings
- Biography of St. Thomas and a picture
- Guide to Philosophers: Aquinas: biography with hypertext links, image of St. Thomas, an introduction to Aquinas's writings
- Bibliography of Aquinas's writings
- Bibliographia Thomistica: about as complete a bibliography as you'll find for writings about Aquinas
- Bibliography of St. Thomas Aquinas: an annotated listing of writings by Aquinas and writings on Aquinas, compiled by Fr. Thomas O'Meara, O.P.
- Concordance to the Summa Theologiae: Just select a word in English, and you'll get all the places in the Summa where that word appears.
- Latin Concordance to Aquinas's works
- Thomas Aquinas Links: nice collection of links
- Thomistica.NET: A website devoted to the academic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, this site contains news items for Thomas scholars, links, pictures, and Aquinas documents.
- More Aquinas links: an eclectic collection
- Stephen Loughlin's St. Thomas Home Page: a very comprehensive source with links to biographies, books, and essays about Aquinas; translations of Aquinas's works; and links to other Aquinas sites
Guides and Background to the Summa
- St. Thomas and Medieval Philosophy: a discussion of the context and contents of the Summa Theologiae, Thomas on the centrality of revelation and the interpretation of Scripture
- Jeff's Guide to Philosophy: St. Thomas's Summa Theologiae and online works of Aristotle
- The Thomistic Philosophy Page: This is a truly wonderful site maintained by Joseph Magee, which features topics in Thomistic philosophy (Christian philosophy, philosophy of nature, psychology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, even Thomistic HUMOR! which includes the Five Ways of proving the existence of Santa Claus); a Thomistic bibliography; links to other sites on St. Thomas; and a link to Amazon.com to buy other books by and about Aquinas
- A Companion to the Summa: by Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P., seeks to present the arguments of the Summa in more easily understandable terms
- The Five Ways: Aquinas's arguments from Q. 2 of Part I of the Summa rendered in easily understandable terms. See also excerpts from Thomas Aquinas: God and Explanations by Professor Christopher F J Martin.
- Outline of the Summa Theologiae: an extremely helpful resource developed by Prof. Fred Freddoso of the University of Notre Dame (also helpful is the Synopsis of the Summa Theologiae from the Maritain Institute at Notre Dame)
- Important Concepts and Terms
  - Essence and Existence: a nice explanation
  - Substance and Accidents
  - The Four Causes: with a good description of form vs. matter
  - Aquinas on Evil. See also this link.
  - Background on the problem of evil
Other Thomistic Resources and Links
- Patrick and John's Aquinas Cafe: a jazzy and fun Aquinas site with substance too
- Aquinas T-Shirts: Team Aquinas, St. Thomas's picture, and other designs.
- The 60-second Aquinas Lesson: a daily tidbit of wisdom from the Angelic Doctor
- St. Thomas Aquinas quotes
- The Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Light of Jacques Maritain: This site features concise and accessible explanations of some of the most fundamental issues and concepts in Aquinas.
- Thomistic Institutes Worldwide
- The Thomist: a speculative quarterly review, often with many scholarly articles on aspects of St. Thomas's work
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Latin Resources on the Web
- Michael Sudduth's Analytic Philosophy of Religion Website: helpful resources from the analytic tradition, including course lecture notes, philosophy of religion links, links to theistic philosophers. See especially the helpful glossary of Thomistic terms (form and matter, substance and accident, etc.), Aquinas on faith and reason, and notes on medieval philosophy.
- Readings for Philosophers and Catholics from the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame
Please e-mail me with questions, comments, or suggestions for links to add.

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