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Thomas Aquinas & Scholastic Theology Thomas Aquinas & Scholastic Theology 1. Thomas Aquinas: Texts & Translations 2. Thomas Aquinas: Studies of His Life & Theology 3. Medieval Liturgy & Sacramental Theology 4. Dante: Texts & Studies 1. THOMAS AQUINAS: TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Latin Texts The critical edition of Thomas Aquinas's writing is the so-called Leonine edition: Sancti Thomae Aquinatis doctoris angelici Opera omnia iussu Leonis XIII.O.M. edita., cura et studio fratrum praedictorum (Rome: 1882- ), 26 volumes to date. There are also a number of critical editions of individual works published Marietti in Turin. The Latin texts are now available online at the Corpus Thomisticum at http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/iopera.html. At the end of Jean-Pierre Torrell's Saint Thomas Aquinas, there is a 30-page listing of the best versions of the Latin texts and of English translations. Summa Theologiae Thomas's masterpiece is, of course, the Summa Theologiae (Summary of Theology). Advanced students should use the Blackfriars edition: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (Cambridge: Blackfriars / New York: McGraw Hill, 1964-1973). This 60-volume edition contains the complete Latin text of the Summa with an English translation on facing pages. Generally dependable, if often a somewhat free translation. For beginning students, there are a variety of anthologies and summaries. I recommend the following: Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, ed. and trans., Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas (Grand Rapids: Eerdsmans, 2005). This has an 1 Bibliographies for Theology, compiled by William Harmless, S.J. excellent selection of the major questions and articles from the Summa. Also valuable are Bauerschmidt's detailed commentaries in the footnotes. Other selections from the Summa: Thomas Aquinas, The Treatise on Human Nature: Summa Theologiae 1a, 75-89 , ed. Robert Pasnau (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002). Thomas Aquinas, The Treatise on Law: being Summa Theologiae I-II; qq. 90-97, ed. Robert J. Henle (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993) Summa Contra Gentiles Thomas's other great work is the Summa contra gentiles. For the Latin text, see: S. Thomae Aquinatis Doctoris Angelici Liber de vertitate Catholicae fidei contra errores infidelium, qui dicitur Summa contra gentiles, ed. P. Marc, C. Pera, and P. Caramello, 3 vol. (Turin: 1961). The standard translation is: Thomas Aquinas, On the Truth of the Catholic Faith, trans. Anton C. Pegis (Bk. 1), J.F. Anderson (Bk. 2), and Vernon J. Bourke (Bk. 3), C.J. O’Neill (Bk. 4) (1955; reprint: Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975). Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard Among Thomas's earliest works was his massive commentary on the 4 volumes of Peter Lombard's Sentences (which was the standard theological textbook of the time): Scriptum super libros sententiarum magistri Petri Lombard Episcopi Parisiensis, 4 vol., eds. P Mandonnet and M.F. Moos (Paris: 1929-1947). Selections from this have recently been translated: Thomas Aquinas, On Love and Charity: Readings from the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, trans. Peter A. Kwasniewski, Thomas Bolin, and Joseph Bolin, Thomas Aquinas in Translation series (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2008) Compendium of Theology This is Thomas's brief (and incomplete) summa. Thomas Aquinas, Compendium of Theology, trans. Richard J. Regan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Latin text: Compendium theologiae ad fratrem Raynaldum, Leonine, vol. 42, ed. G. de Grandpré (1979). Disputed Questions Thomas Aquinas, On Evil, trans. Richard J. Regan; ed. Brian Davies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). See also: Thomas Aquinas, On Evil: Disputed Questions, trans. John A. Osterle and Jean T. Osterle (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De malo, Leonine vol. 23:83-191, ed. P.-M.J. Gils (1982). Journal of Religion & Society 2 Supplement 15 Bibliographies for Theology, compiled by William Harmless, S.J. Thomas Aquinas, Truth, trans. Robert W. Mulligan (Vol. 1: qq. 1-9); James V. McGlynn (vol. 2: qq. 10-20), Robert W. Schmidt (vol. 3: 21-29) (Chicago: H. Regnery, 1952-1954; reprint: Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De veritate, Leonine 22, 3 vol., ed. A. Dondaine (1970-1976). Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on Virtue, ed. and trans. Jeffrey Hause and Claudia Eisen Murphy (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2010). See also: Thomas Aquinas, Disputed Questions on the Virtues, trans. E.M. Atkins and Thomas Williams, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De virtutibus, in Quaestiones disputatae, eds. P. Bazzi et al. (Turin, 1949), vol. 2:707-828. Thomas Aquinas, Quodlibetal Questions 1 and 2, Mediaeval Sources in Translation 27, trans. Sandra Edwards (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1983). Latin text: Quaestiones de quodlibet I-XII, Leonine, vol. 25, ed. R.-A. Gauthier (1996). Thomas Aquinas, On the Power of God, trans. English Dominicans (Westminster: Christian Classics, 1952). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De potentia. In Quaestiones disputatae, eds. P. Bazzi et al. (Turin: 1949), vol. 2: 7-276. Thomas Aquinas, Questions on the Soul, trans. James H. Robb, Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation 27 (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1984). Latin text: Quaestiones disputatae De anima, Leonine 24/1, ed. B.-C. Bazan (1996). S.C. Seiner-Wright, trans. St. Thomas Aquinas: On Creation [Quaestiones Disputatae De Potentia Dei, Q. 3], Thomas Aquinas in Translation series (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2011). Biblical Commentaries Thomas Aquinas, The Literal Exposition on Job: A Scriptural Commentary concerning Providence, Classics in Religious Studies 7., trans. A. Damico. (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1989). Latin text: Expositio super Job ad litteram, Leonine, vol. 26, ed. A. Dondaine (1965). Thomas Aquinas, Catena aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels Collected out of the Works of the Fathers, 4 vol. (1841; reprint Saint Austin Press, 1997). Latin text: Catena aurea in quatuor Evangelica, ed. A. Guarienti (Turin: 1953). Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of St. John, Part I (Chapters 1-7), trans. James A. Weisheipl and Fabian R. Larcher, Aquinas Scripture Series, vol. 4 (Albany, NY: Magi Books, 1980). Latin text: Lectura super Ioannem, ed. R. Cai (Turin: 1952) Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Saint Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians and the letter to the Philippians, trans., F.R. Larcher and Michael Duffy, Aquinas Scripture series, vol. 3 (Albany, NY: Magi, 1969). Latin Text: Expositio et Lectura super Epistolas Pauli Apostoli, 2 vols., ed. R. Cai (Turin: 1953). Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, trans. F.R. Larcher, Aquinas Scipture series, vol. 1 (Albany, NY: Magi, 1966). Latin text: Expositio et Lectura super Epistolas Pauli Apostoli, 2 vols., ed. R. Cai (Turin: 1953). Journal of Religion & Society 3 Supplement 15 Bibliographies for Theology, compiled by William Harmless, S.J. Commentaries on Aristotle, Boethius & Other Texts Thomas Aquinas, Saint Thomas Aquinas: Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, trans. C.I. Litzinger, 2 vols. (Chicago: 1964; reprint Notre Dame: Dumb Ox Books, 1993). Latin text: Sententia Libri Ethicorum, Leonine 47 (2 vol.), ed. R.-A. Gauthier (1984). Thomas Aquinas,Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle, trans. J.P. Rowan, 2 vol. (Chicago: 1961; reprint: Notre Dame: Dumb Ox Books, 1995). Latin text: Sententia super Metaphysicam, ed. M.-R. Cathala and R. Spiazzi (Turin: 1952). Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle's Phyiscs, trans. Richard J. Blackwell, Richard J. Spath, and W. Edmund Thirlkel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963; reprint: Notre Dame: Dumb Ox Books, 1999). Latin text: Sententia super Physicam, Leonine 2 (1884). Thomas Aquinas, An Exposition of the On the Hebdomads of Boethius, trans. Janice L. Schultz and Edward A Synan (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 2001). Latin text: Expositio libri Boetii De ebdomadibus, Leonine 50, ed. P.-M. J. Gils (1992), pp. 267-282. Thomas Aquinas, Faith, Reason, and Theology. Questions I-IV of His Commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius, trans. Armand Maurer (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1987). Latin text: Super Boetium De Trinitate, Leonine 50, ed. P.-M. J. Gils (1992), pp. 75-171. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Book of Causes, trans. Vincent A. Guagliardo, Charles R. Hess, and Richard C. Taylor (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 1996). Latin text: Super librum De causis, ed. C. Pera (Turin: 1955). Other Treatises, Liturgical Works & Sermons Nicholas Ayo, trans. The Sermon-Conferences of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Apostles’ Creed (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988). Latin text: Collationes super Credo in Deum. Mark-Robin Hoogland, trans., Thomas Aquinas, The Academic Sermons, Fathers of the Church, Medieval Continuation, vol. 11 (Washington, DC: Catholic Univeristy of America Press, 2010). Ralph M. McInerny, ed. and trans., Aquinas Against the Averroists: On There Being only One Intellect (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1993). Latin text: De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas, Leonine 43: 291-314. Thomas Aquinas, An Apology for the Religious Orders, trans. John Procter (London: Sands, 1902). Latin text: Contra impugnantes Dei cultum et religionem, Leonine 41A, ed. H.-F. Dondaine (1970); and Contra
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