Laudate_Dominum Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 So I was just putting together a guide to the study of St. Thomas Aquinas and I thought I'd post it to get suggestions from others. [b]Part I[/b] (some books for warming up) [i]Aristotle for Everybody[/i], Mortimer Adler [i]A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas[/i], McInerny [i]Aquinas's Shorter Summa[/i], Thomas Aquinas [i]The Basic Works of Aristotle[/i], Richard McKeon (editor) [i]The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle[/i], Jonathan Barnes [i]The Enneads : Abridged Edition[/i] (Penguin Classics), Plotinus [i]Plotinus : An Introduction to the Enneads[/i], Dominic J. O'Meara [i]Pseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works[/i], Paulist Press [i]Essential Augustine[/i], Vernon Bourke [i]An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas[/i], James Anderson (editor) [i]A Summa of the Summa[/i], Peter Kreeft [b]Part II[/b] (getting serious) [i]History of Philosophy vol. 1[/i], Frederick Copleston [i]History of Philosophy vol. 2[/i], Frederick Copleston [i]Medieval Philosophy[/i], Armand Maurer [i]Holy Teaching: Introducing the ‘Summa Theologiae’ of St. Thomas Aquinas[/i], Fritz Bauerschmidt [i]Ethica Thomistica[/i], Ralph McInerny [i]Three Philosophers: Aristotle, Aquinas, Frege[/i], Anscombe & Geach [i]A Guide to St Thomas[/i], Josef Pieper [i]The Silence of St. Thomas[/i], Josef Pieper [i]Elements of Christian Philosophy[/i], Etienne Gilson [i]The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas[/i], Etienne Gilson [i]The Thought of Thomas Aquinas[/i], Brian Davies [i]Saint Thomas Aquinas[/i], Jean-Pierre Torrell [i]The Philosophy of Aquinas[/i], Robert Pasnau [i]Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation according to Thomas Aquinas[/i], Matthew Levering [i]Aquinas and His Role in Theology[/i], M.D. Chenu [i]The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being[/i], John F. Wippel [i]A Companion to the Summa[/i], William Farrell, OP [i]Discovering Aquinas[/i], Aidan Nichols [i]The Metaphysics of Theism : Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I[/i], Norman Kretzmann [i]The Metaphysics of Creation[/i], Norman Kretzmann [i]From Unity to Pluralism[/i], Gerald McCool [i]The Neo-Thomists[/i], Gerald McCool [i]A Short History of Thomism[/i], Romanus Cessario [i]The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics[/i], Norris Clarke [b]Part III[/b] (the must reads) [i]On Being and Essence[/i], Aquinas [i]On the Principles of Nature[/i], Aquinas [i]On Truth[/i], Aquinas [i]On Evil[/i], Aquinas [i]On the Power of God[/i], Aquinas [i]On the Virtues[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics[/i] , Aquinas [i]Summa Contra Gentiles[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on the Gospel of John[/i], Aquinas [i]Summa Theologiae[/i], Aquinas [b]Other helpful reads:[/b] [i]Symposium[/i], Plato [i]Republic[/i], Plato [i]Meno[/i], Plato [i]The Apology[/i], Plato [i]Crito[/i], Plato [i]Pheado[/i], Plato [i]Parmenides[/i], Plato [i]Nichomachean Ethics[/i], Aristotle [i]The Categories[/i], Aristotle [i]Physics[/i], Aristotle [i]Metaphysics[/i], Aristotle [i]Politics[/i], Aristotle [i]De Anima[/i], Aristotle [i]Enneads[/i], Plotinus [i]The Divine Names[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Celestial Hierarchy[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Mystical Theology[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Life of Moses[/i], Gregory of Nyssa [i]Against Eunomius[/i], Gregory of Nyssa [i]On the Soul and the Resurrection[/i], Gregory of Nyssa [i]On God and Christ[/i], Gregory of Nazianzus [i]On the Holy Spirit[/i], St. Basil [i]Commentary on the Gospel of John[/i], St. John Chrysostom [i]On the Incarnation[/i], Athanasius [i]The Orthodox Faith[/i], St. John Damascene [i]On the Divine Images[/i], St. John Damascene [i]On the Trinity[/i], St. Hilary of Poitiers [i]On the Mysteries[/i], St. Ambrose [i]Commentary on the Gospel of Luke[/i], St. Ambrose [i]Confessions[/i], Augustine [i]City of God[/i], Augustine [i]On the Trinity[/i], Augustine [i]On Christian Doctrine[/i], Augustine [i]On Genesis[/i], Augustine [i]Against the Academicians[/i], Augustine [i]The Consolation of Philosophy[/i], Boethius [i]On the Trinity[/i], Boethius [i]On the Catholic Faith[/i], Boethius [i]The Propositional Logic[/i], Avicenna [i]Metaphysics[/i], Avicenna [i]On Plato's Republic[/i], Averroes [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretatione[/i], Averroes [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics[/i], Averroes [i]Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima[/i], Averroes [i]On the Perfect State[/i], Al-Farabi [i]The Book of Sentences[/i], Peter Lombard [i]Sermons on the Song of Songs[/i], St. Bernard of Clairvaux [i]On Union With God[/i], St. Albert the Great [i]Catena Aurea[/i], St. Thomas Aquinas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 You had Dr. Lee didn't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 [quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Jan 8 2006, 06:21 AM']You had Dr. Lee didn't you? [right][snapback]849353[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Why, would he likely agree with this list? I imagine any conservative Thomist would consider it a decent list. I've only read 28 of the book on that list (and some of those I never finished). I have a loooong way to go. Besides this, I should reread the ones I read because its been a while. If life was fair we wouldn't have to eat, sleep or work but could simply pray and study.. That would be sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Jan 8 2006, 08:23 AM']Why, would he likely agree with this list? I imagine any conservative Thomist would consider it a decent list. [right][snapback]849354[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Very much so, I think. It's a good list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I would've been very surprised if you had read ALL of those books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 [quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Jan 8 2006, 06:27 AM']I would've been very surprised if you had read ALL of those books. [right][snapback]849356[/snapback][/right] [/quote] gosh! I wish! I'd be able to actually talk about Thomas without feeling like a jack-ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 me too, me too. I even had a whole class on him last semester and the prof was just too mushy... she wasn't a fan of learning philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 8, 2006 Author Share Posted January 8, 2006 [quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' date='Jan 8 2006, 06:30 AM'] me too, me too. I even had a whole class on him last semester and the prof was just too mushy... she wasn't a fan of learning philosophy. [right][snapback]849358[/snapback][/right] [/quote] aww that stinks. But if you wanna start an Aquinas reading club we can see who polishes off this reading list first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Jan 8 2006, 08:35 AM']aww that stinks. But if you wanna start an Aquinas reading club we can see who polishes off this reading list first. [right][snapback]849359[/snapback][/right] [/quote] Just as soon as I finish beating my priest-friend in reading Pope Benedict's (as Cardinal Ratzinger) books!!! You're on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatcatholic Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='Jan 8 2006, 04:33 AM']So I was just putting together a guide to the study of St. Thomas Aquinas and I thought I'd post it to get suggestions from others. [b]Part I[/b] (some books for warming up) [i]Aristotle for Everybody[/i], Mortimer Adler [i]A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas[/i], McInerny [i]Aquinas's Shorter Summa[/i], Thomas Aquinas [i]The Basic Works of Aristotle[/i], Richard McKeon (editor) [i]The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle[/i], Jonathan Barnes [i]The Enneads : Abridged Edition[/i] (Penguin Classics), Plotinus [i]Plotinus : An Introduction to the Enneads[/i], Dominic J. O'Meara [i]Pseudo Dionysius: The Complete Works[/i], Paulist Press [i]Essential Augustine[/i], Vernon Bourke [i]An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas[/i], James Anderson (editor) [i]A Summa of the Summa[/i], Peter Kreeft [b]Part II[/b] (getting serious) [i]History of Philosophy vol. 1[/i], Frederick Copleston [i]History of Philosophy vol. 2[/i], Frederick Copleston [i]Medieval Philosophy[/i], Armand Maurer [i]Holy Teaching: Introducing the ‘Summa Theologiae’ of St. Thomas Aquinas[/i], Fritz Bauerschmidt [i]Ethica Thomistica[/i], Ralph McInerny [i]Three Philosophers: Aristotle, Aquinas, Frege[/i], Anscombe & Geach [i]A Guide to St Thomas[/i], Josef Pieper [i]The Silence of St. Thomas[/i], Josef Pieper [i]Elements of Christian Philosophy[/i], Etienne Gilson [i]The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas[/i], Etienne Gilson [i]The Thought of Thomas Aquinas[/i], Brian Davies [i]Saint Thomas Aquinas[/i], Jean-Pierre Torrell [i]The Philosophy of Aquinas[/i], Robert Pasnau [i]Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation according to Thomas Aquinas[/i], Matthew Levering [i]Aquinas and His Role in Theology[/i], M.D. Chenu [i]The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being[/i], John F. Wippel [i]A Companion to the Summa[/i], William Farrell, OP [i]Discovering Aquinas[/i], Aidan Nichols [i]The Metaphysics of Theism : Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I[/i], Norman Kretzmann [i]The Metaphysics of Creation[/i], Norman Kretzmann [i]From Unity to Pluralism[/i], Gerald McCool [i]The Neo-Thomists[/i], Gerald McCool [i]A Short History of Thomism[/i], Romanus Cessario [i]The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics[/i], Norris Clarke [b]Part III[/b] (the must reads) [i]On Being and Essence[/i], Aquinas [i]On the Principles of Nature[/i], Aquinas [i]On Truth[/i], Aquinas [i]On Evil[/i], Aquinas [i]On the Power of God[/i], Aquinas [i]On the Virtues[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics[/i] , Aquinas [i]Summa Contra Gentiles[/i], Aquinas [i]Commentary on the Gospel of John[/i], Aquinas [i]Summa Theologiae[/i], Aquinas [b]Other helpful reads:[/b] [i]Symposium[/i], Plato [i]Republic[/i], Plato [i]Meno[/i], Plato [i]The Apology[/i], Plato [i]Crito[/i], Plato [i]Pheado[/i], Plato [i]Parmenides[/i], Plato [i]Nichomachean Ethics[/i], Aristotle [i]The Categories[/i], Aristotle [i]Physics[/i], Aristotle [i]Metaphysics[/i], Aristotle [i]Politics[/i], Aristotle [i]De Anima[/i], Aristotle [i]Enneads[/i], Plotinus [i]The Divine Names[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Celestial Hierarchy[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Mystical Theology[/i], Pseudo-Dionysius [i]The Life of Moses[/i], Gregory of Nyssa [i]Against Eunomius[/i], Gregory of Nyssa [i]On the Soul and the Resurrection[/i], Gregory of Nyssa [i]On God and Christ[/i], Gregory of Nazianzus [i]On the Holy Spirit[/i], St. Basil [i]Commentary on the Gospel of John[/i], St. John Chrysostom [i]On the Incarnation[/i], Athanasius [i]The Orthodox Faith[/i], St. John Damascene [i]On the Divine Images[/i], St. John Damascene [i]On the Trinity[/i], St. Hilary of Poitiers [i]On the Mysteries[/i], St. Ambrose [i]Commentary on the Gospel of Luke[/i], St. Ambrose [i]Confessions[/i], Augustine [i]City of God[/i], Augustine [i]On the Trinity[/i], Augustine [i]On Christian Doctrine[/i], Augustine [i]On Genesis[/i], Augustine [i]Against the Academicians[/i], Augustine [i]The Consolation of Philosophy[/i], Boethius [i]On the Trinity[/i], Boethius [i]On the Catholic Faith[/i], Boethius [i]The Propositional Logic[/i], Avicenna [i]Metaphysics[/i], Avicenna [i]On Plato's Republic[/i], Averroes [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretatione[/i], Averroes [i]Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics[/i], Averroes [i]Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima[/i], Averroes [i]On the Perfect State[/i], Al-Farabi [i]The Book of Sentences[/i], Peter Lombard [i]Sermons on the Song of Songs[/i], St. Bernard of Clairvaux [i]On Union With God[/i], St. Albert the Great [i]Catena Aurea[/i], St. Thomas Aquinas [right][snapback]849345[/snapback][/right] [/quote] you're my role-model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 LD, thanks for compiling this list. You rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JeffCR07 Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 So I was sitting in my room, trying to think of someone who rules, and then I remembered: its L_D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franciscanheart Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 i wish i had input... but i dont. unless of course you count my saying how much I love St Thomas Aquinas (again) to be input... in that case i might actually have a lot. assuming, however, that you dont... ill just leave now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 I'd like to add a few more texts which I believe would be interesting reading in light of the above list. [i]Trinity in Aquinas[/i], Gilles Emery [i]Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology[/i], Matthew Webb Levering [i]The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis[/i], William A. Wallace [i]The Science Before Science[/i], Anthony Rizzi [i]Commentary on Job[/i], Thomas Aquinas [i]Thomas Aquinas and the Liturgy[/i], David Berger [i]Knowledge and Faith[/i], Edith Stein [i]Finite and Eternal Being[/i], Edith Stein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 9, 2006 Author Share Posted January 9, 2006 And if anyone has already read all the texts presented thus far and is in need of reading ideas I would think this resource would suffice: [url="http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/izbiblio.html"]http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/izbiblio.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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