A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners Discontinued Based on an imaginary dialogue

Based on an imaginary dialogue between Socrates and Hume that takes place in the afterlife

the Alleluia verse

each New Testament book is outlined and introduced with an essay covering questions of authorship

Paul saw the universal nature of the Christian message

In this second volume of New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church are depicted the lives and deaths

A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners Discontinued Based on an imaginary dialogueAuthor: Peter Kreeft A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted,