The second part addresses ethics, habits, law, faith, wisdom, self-control, morality, prophecy, miracles, and the contemplative life. The first part covers the nature of God, creation, angels, man, and divine government (sovereignty). The Summa Theologica is divided into three parts. The Summa Theologica was declared to be the official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo XIII (1879). Aquinas, however, did reject Aristotle’s concept of a detached and distant God in favor of the God of the Bible who is intensely interested and knowable. Written from 1265-1273, the Summa Theologica (or Summa Theologiae, or sometimes referred to as the Summa) is the name of the philosophical summary ( summa) of the theology ( theologica) of the Roman Catholic Church as presented and organized by Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274.Īquinas used Aristotelian philosophy as a framework for the Summa Theologica, believing Aristotle to be a friend of Christianity when many earlier thinkers had seen him as a foe.
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