Comingback Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) You only need to read a few pages every day and you'll read the entire thing in a year. People make it seem like it's harder to read the entire book than it actually is. I would tell her to just pace herself to a few pages a day so she can really let the words settle in her mind, and in a year's time she'll have read the whole thing. Oh, but I wanted to do it as my "challenge" book!!! Has to be done by Candlemas!! :bounce: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL (I am the person AnneLinn was asking for) Edited December 8, 2013 by Comingback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) :LOL: rotfl If you don't know what she is talking about, go check out the Advent to Candlemas reading thread on Lame Board... :hehe: Edited December 8, 2013 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comingback Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 How about the Summa of the Summa or the Shorter Summa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) ComingBack, I'm no Aquinas expert (and it is too bad that all the Dominican Nuns took off to celebrate Advent... what TIMING!!!) But the reviews indicate that St. Thomas wrote a 'summary' to the Summary -- the 'Shorter Summa' that you mentioned above... it sounds like it might just fit your needs: http://www.amazon.com/Aquinass-Shorter-Summa-Thomass-Theologica/product-reviews/1928832431/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1 Has anyone on here read this??? Edited December 8, 2013 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Well, I'm afraid I can't just throw a book out there you can learn Thomas Aquinas from. I had about the best teacher I could have asked for on the subject when I was back in seminary, the guy had spent most of his life studying Aquinas and had made it his life's goal to be able to explain it to regular people. I wish he'd write a book... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comingback Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 ComingBack, I'm no Aquinas expert (and it is too bad that all the Dominican Nuns took off to celebrate Advent... what TIMING!!!) But the reviews indicate that St. Thomas wrote a 'summary' to the Summary -- the 'Shorter Summa' that you mentioned above... it sounds like it might just fit your needs: http://www.amazon.com/Aquinass-Shorter-Summa-Thomass-Theologica/product-reviews/1928832431/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?showViewpoints=1 Has anyone on here read this??? Thank you. I just looked at this on Amazon, read the reviews, and I think it will be a good place to start. While hunting around, I got Kindle samples of Feser's Last Superstition and his Aquinas Beginner's Guide. One reviewer said that the Superstition book was a fairly good review of Aristotle (gaaa..that opens up a whole nother thing) and it was good to read it before the Aquinas book. It starts off as a rant, though. I read some of the beginning of his Aquinas book and kind of liked it. May start with one of these while I order the Shorter Summa by Aquinas himself. It will take me that long to finish the Theology for Beginners book LOL. I have had classes in philosophy (was one class short of a minor), so I know my brain will work this way. It just hasn't in so long. I also had a class on Aristotle, but have no idea where books/notes are. So this is not an impossible thing, just hard. I find myself also reading St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. and Therese of Lisieux, It occurs to me that there saints are in the windows behind me where I got for daily mass. St. Thomas and St. Augustine are the other two. Wonder if they're wanting me to get to know them? Hmmmm. I feel like I pray with these saints every day. I had assumed that St. Thomas was impossible for me, but maybe not on a beginning level. I also like the suggestion to read a passage a day for awhile...Anyhow, thanks again for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithinkjesusiscool Posted December 8, 2013 Author Share Posted December 8, 2013 What about GK Chesterton's book http://www.catholicprimer.org/chesterton/st_thomas.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 (edited) Thank you. I just looked at this on Amazon, read the reviews, and I think it will be a good place to start. While hunting around, I got Kindle samples of Feser's Last Superstition and his Aquinas Beginner's Guide. One reviewer said that the Superstition book was a fairly good review of Aristotle (gaaa..that opens up a whole nother thing) and it was good to read it before the Aquinas book. It starts off as a rant, though. I read some of the beginning of his Aquinas book and kind of liked it. May start with one of these while I order the Shorter Summa by Aquinas himself. It will take me that long to finish the Theology for Beginners book LOL. I have had classes in philosophy (was one class short of a minor), so I know my brain will work this way. It just hasn't in so long. I also had a class on Aristotle, but have no idea where books/notes are. So this is not an impossible thing, just hard. I find myself also reading St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. and Therese of Lisieux, It occurs to me that there saints are in the windows behind me where I got for daily mass. St. Thomas and St. Augustine are the other two. Wonder if they're wanting me to get to know them? Hmmmm. I feel like I pray with these saints every day. I had assumed that St. Thomas was impossible for me, but maybe not on a beginning level. I also like the suggestion to read a passage a day for awhile...Anyhow, thanks again for your help. Hmmmm there's a theme here, you know... the Doominican's follow the rule of St. Augustine.... and Therese and Teresa... well.... they just pray for people. Interesting about those windows..... Don't like Aristotle, huh... yup, DOOOOOOMed..... On the other hand, just from this thread, there are a LOT of people who can help you with understanding what you are reading, so you aren't TOTALLY dooooooomed.... DOOOOOOOMinicans, huh? he he he Edited December 8, 2013 by AnneLine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comingback Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Hmmmm there's a theme here, you know... the Doominican's follow the rule of St. Augustine.... and Therese and Teresa... well.... they just pray for people. Interesting about those windows..... Don't like Aristotle, huh... yup, DOOOOOOMed..... On the other hand, just from this thread, there are a LOT of people who can help you with understanding what you are reading, so you aren't TOTALLY dooooooomed.... DOOOOOOOMinicans, huh? he he he HAHA!! Well, maybe. But also Carmelite. I mean St. Catherine, St. Theresa and St. Therese PLUS I got the Infant of Prague for my saint this year. I may be understanding it wrong, but was not St. Therese devoted to the child Jesus? I have been praying the chaplet and well... So I don't know. I have been praying a lot about this, so...maybe I am doomed and maybe I am carmelized. Or maybe something else.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneLine Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 uh oh.... that is a really scary combination. Trust me.... :buddies2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comingback Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 What about GK Chesterton's book http://www.catholicprimer.org/chesterton/st_thomas.pdf Yes!! I found it online and read his introduction and will read it. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amppax Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 A professor shared with us that to read the Summa, read the title of the article. Then start with the "on the contrary" and "I answer that." Finally, the Objection and responses as pairs. Very, very helpful way to read it, makes a lot more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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