In case you want to read along...

I have been trying to figure out a good book to read for anyone who wants to follow along with my reading through the Summa Theologiae. I'll give three different recommendations:

1) Get A Tour of the Summa (it takes awhile to get it new, but there are a lot of used available) and read the Summa along with me. I'll also recommend certain selections of the Summa. You can get these online here, but I'll link to them as I recommend them. The benefit of this book is that it actually summarizes the entire Summa. Although you won't get a lot of the arguments, objections and distinctions that I'll be reading, you will be able to have an idea of what I am reading and what Aquinas thinks about things. This is what I would recommend doing. Also, this is what Andrea is doing.

2) Get The Thought of Thomas Aquinas and read through it in segments by what I am reading. This book also covers all of the topics the Summa covers. The benefit of this book is that it is a recent book whose author wants to make Aquinas understandable today. The downside is that it leaves a lot of the Summa out in order to explain some of it.

3) Read both of these books. Considering the reading will be spread out over ten months, this is a fairly doable task.

We'll try to post at least once more before we leave, explaining what we are hoping to do with this blog.

Cheers.