Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ginosko!aplcen!haven!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Summa Theologica Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 06:39:15 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , jhpb@lancia.att.com writes: >The Summa is highly regarded; the council of Trent placed it on the >altar with the Bible. It's not official, though, in the sense that a >Papal encyclical is. But if one wants to study the Catholic religion in >depth, the Summa is an excellent place to go. There's an English >translation in print (Christian Classics). I picked up a copy of a study edition of the _Summa_ a few months ago, and frankly, I found that I was *very* rusty with the terminology and argument of scholastic philosophy: it might as well have been untranslated for all the impact it made on me. In places where I thought I had a glimmer of understanding, I couldn't help but feel that it all seemed so _irrelevant_ (boy, my high school years, revisited.) After my last attempt to read it without sinking into a stupor, I set it aside with the mental note to take a course in Aquinas before making any rash judgements... -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu