Summa Theologiae
Partial workWork coverage: Thirty-nine articles of a work that runs to several thousand — Prima Pars, Question 1 ("The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine," all ten articles), Question 2 ("The Existence of God," all three articles, including the Five Ways), Question 3 ("The Simplicity of God," all eight articles), Question 4 ("The Perfection of God," all three articles), Question 5 ("Goodness in General," all six articles), Question 6 ("The Goodness of God," all four articles), and Question 7 ("The Infinity of God," all four articles) — plus the original pilot article, Prima Secundae, Question 1, Article 1. Questions 1-2 shipped 2026-08-20; Questions 3-7 shipped 2026-08-21, same volume, same PD basis, re-verified for this range. The rest of the Summa, including the Supplement, has not been transcribed.
Edition & AttributionTranscribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Translator, publisher and source details.
- Text source
- OCR-derived transcription
- Translator
- Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- Series
- The "Summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas, Part I, QQ. I.-XXVI. (Second and Revised Edition)
- Editor
- None named — the printed volume names no editor beyond the translating Fathers
- Publisher
- Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., London, and Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago (joint imprint)
- Year
- 1920
- Revision
- Transcribed from the Internet Archive's full-text OCR of the 1920 volume, archive.org item summatheologicao011thom (the same edition is also digitized, with matching title-page evidence, as thesummatheologi01thomuoft; neither was pooled as a witness for the other — one was read, the other used only to confirm the printing). Printed readings are preserved; every mechanical scanning artifact repaired is logged; a handful of double-OCR-corrupted spots were additionally cross-checked against the scan's own page images (archive.org's IIIF endpoint) rather than resolved by context alone. The "We proceed thus to the Nth Article" opening formula and the running heads are printing apparatus and are not transcribed, consistent with unit 1.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Accessed
- 2026-08-20
- License
- public-domain-base
- edition
- Second and revised edition of the Dominican Fathers' translation, Prima Pars QQ. I-XXVI. NOT the 1947 Benziger revision that ccel.org and newadvent.org carry, whose public-domain basis is not established. This provenance block describes units 2-39 (Prima Pars QQ. 1-7, thirty-eight articles), all drawn from the same single scanned volume (archive.org summatheologicao011thom, which covers Prima Pars QQ. I-XXVI. entire — Questions 3-7 required no different fascicle). Unit 1 (Prima Secundae, Q. 1, A. 1) is a DIFFERENT printing, the 1914 Benziger volume, and is unchanged by this expansion — its own provenance stands as originally written.
Contents
Question 1, Article 1. Whether it is fitting for man to act for an end?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 1. Whether, besides philosophy, any further doctrine is required?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 2. Whether sacred doctrine is a science?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 3. Whether sacred doctrine is one science?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 4. Whether sacred doctrine is a practical science?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 5. Whether sacred doctrine is nobler than other sciences?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 6. Whether this doctrine is the same as wisdom?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 7. Whether God is the object of this science?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 8. Whether sacred doctrine is a matter of argument?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 9. Whether Holy Scripture should use metaphors?Prima Pars, Question 1, Article 10. Whether in Holy Scripture a word may have several senses?Prima Pars, Question 2, Article 1. Whether the existence of God is self-evident?Prima Pars, Question 2, Article 2. Whether it can be demonstrated that God exists?Prima Pars, Question 2, Article 3. Whether God exists?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 1. Whether God is a body?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 2. Whether God is composed of matter and form?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 3. Whether God is the same as His essence or nature?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 4. Whether essence and existence are the same in God?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 5. Whether God is contained in a genus?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 6. Whether in God there are any accidents?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 7. Whether God is altogether simple?Prima Pars, Question 3, Article 8. Whether God enters into the composition of other things?Prima Pars, Question 4, Article 1. Whether God is perfect?Prima Pars, Question 4, Article 2. Whether the perfections of all things are in God?Prima Pars, Question 4, Article 3. Whether any creature can be like God?Prima Pars, Question 5, Article 1. Whether goodness differs really from being?Prima Pars, Question 5, Article 2. Whether goodness is prior in idea to being?Prima Pars, Question 5, Article 3. Whether every being is good?Prima Pars, Question 5, Article 4. Whether goodness has the aspect of a final cause?Prima Pars, Question 5, Article 5. Whether the essence of goodness consists in mode, species, and order?Prima Pars, Question 5, Article 6. Whether goodness is rightly divided into the virtuous, the useful, and the pleasant?Prima Pars, Question 6, Article 1. Whether God is good?Prima Pars, Question 6, Article 2. Whether God is the supreme good?Prima Pars, Question 6, Article 3. Whether to be essentially good belongs to God alone?Prima Pars, Question 6, Article 4. Whether all things are good by the divine goodness?Prima Pars, Question 7, Article 1. Whether God is infinite?Prima Pars, Question 7, Article 2. Whether anything but God can be essentially infinite?Prima Pars, Question 7, Article 3. Whether an actually infinite magnitude can exist?Prima Pars, Question 7, Article 4. Whether an infinite multitude can exist?