{"title":"Companions to the Summa","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-summa-volume-i","title":"A Companion to the Summa, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Walter Farrell, O.P.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Summa Theologiae \u003c\/b\u003eis a work of astounding breadth and scope: five folio vol­umes of closely packed print, and more closely packed thought; incredibly, it was a work intended, not for the learned and wise, but for beginners. Walter Farrell, O.P., fully honors that intention with his four \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003evolumes to the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e, which together offer an easy guidebook to St. Thomas’s greatest work. These are not simply more books about St. Thomas or about the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e; rather, they are a distillation of the \u003ci\u003eSumma \u003c\/i\u003einto popular and accessible form, a unique introduction to the thought of the Angelic Doctor and a defense of the truths, natural and divine, by which human life is lived.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume I: The Architect of the Universe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epresents St. Thomas’s rich and masterly study of God, man, and the world, as found in the first part of the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e. In neat and orderly fashion, Farrell follows the Angelic Doctor’s lead, considering the universal harmony of creation and its Creator, providing the arguments of God’s existence, studying the divine nature and attributes, and examining the procession of creatures from their divine Creator, the manner of their production and their distinction into angelic, corporal, and human natures. A bold rebuke of the confusions and deceptions peculiar to the modern age, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Summa, Volume I: The Architect of the Universe \u003c\/i\u003epowerfully illuminates the fundamental truths about the nature of the human person and the orderly planning of the divine architect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgetting God, our times have not recognized men and have yet to see the world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are learned but far from wise. This is Thomas’s book of wisdom, his searching\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eexamination of the profound reasons, his handbook of the important answers. \u003c\/i\u003e(Walter Farrell, O.P.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Farrell, O.P., \u003c\/b\u003e(1902–1951) was a Dominican priest and scholar. He was the founder of the speculative quarterly \u003ci\u003eThe Thomist \u003c\/i\u003eand was a frequent contributor to numerous scholarly and spiritual periodicals. 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Walter Farrell, O.P., fully honors that intention with his four \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003evolumes to the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e, which together offer an easy guidebook to St. Thomas’s greatest work. These are not simply more books about St. Thomas or about the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e; rather, they are a distillation of the \u003ci\u003eSumma \u003c\/i\u003einto popular and accessible form, a unique introduction to the thought of the Angelic Doctor and a defense of the truths, natural and divine, by which human life is lived.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume II: The Pursuit of Happiness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003epresents St. Thomas’s profound study of the whole problem of human happiness. With each page, this study takes a step further down into the mundane world of human affairs; with every chapter, it confronts more directly the clamor and confusion of human activity. In neat and orderly fashion, Farrell once more follows the Angelic Doctor’s lead, examining the essence of happiness and means of attaining it; the relationships between happiness and morality, happiness and passion, happiness and virtue; the various causes of unhappiness—running the whole gamut of human appetite and emotion, from love, desire, and hope to hatred, fear, and despair. A sharp challenge to the ethical caprices of the modern age, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Summa, Volume II: The Pursuit of Happiness \u003c\/i\u003ereaches for and grasps firmly the key to the mystery of human life: happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgetting God, our times have not recognized men and have yet to see the world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are learned but far from wise. 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In neat and orderly fashion, Farrell follows the Angelic Doctor’s lead in considering freedom as the key to the fullness of life and the divine gifts which secure that freedom: faith for man’s mind, hope and charity for his will, and the myriad attendant virtues of those gifts—justice, temperance, prudence, courage, humility, and more. 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In orderly fashion, Farrell follows the Angelic Doctor’s lead in tracing the consequences of the Word made flesh: the life of Christ in detail; the role of the Blessed Mother; the continuation of Christ’s life in the Church and the sacraments; and the goal of heaven at the end of the royal road, the goal of hell at the end of any other path. A spirited articulation of supernatural reality—“not so much an argued thesis as a divinely stated fact”—\u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Summa, Volume IV: The Way of Life\u003c\/i\u003e plunges into that mystery which is a stumbling block and a foolishness to the unbelieving, and yet the ultimate explanation of everything: the mystery of God made man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgetting God, our times have not recognized men and have yet to see the world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are learned but far from wise. 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