Systematic theology
Summa Theologiae
1265-1274, unfinished
Aquinas's most famous synthesis, ordered from God and creation through human action, Christ, the sacraments, and final beatitude.
Dieses Werk oeffnenApologetic synthesis
Summa contra Gentiles
c. 1259-1265
A major work explaining truths knowable by reason and truths received by revelation, especially about God, providence, and salvation.
Dieses Werk oeffnenMetaphysical treatise
De ente et essentia
c. 1252-1256
A short treatise on being, essence, existence, substance, accident, form, matter, and individuation.
Dieses Werk oeffnenDisputed questions
Quaestiones disputatae de veritate
1256-1259
A large set of disputed questions on truth, knowledge, conscience, good, free choice, grace, and related topics.
Dieses Werk oeffnenDisputed questions
Quaestiones disputatae de potentia
1265-1266
Disputed questions on divine power, creation, the Trinity, divine simplicity, and the relation of God to creatures.
Dieses Werk oeffnenDisputed questions
Quaestiones disputatae de malo
c. 1269-1271
A major treatment of evil, sin, free will, temptation, demonic action, and moral disorder.
Dieses Werk oeffnenDisputed questions
Quaestiones disputatae de anima
1265-1266
Aquinas's mature disputed treatment of the soul, intellect, embodiment, and human operations.
Dieses Werk oeffnenAcademic disputations
Quodlibetal Questions
1256-1272
Public university disputations on theological, philosophical, moral, and ecclesial questions raised from many directions.
Dieses Werk oeffnenDoctrinal summary
Compendium Theologiae
1265-1267, unfinished
A concise summary of Christian doctrine arranged around faith, hope, and charity.
Dieses Werk oeffnenNatural philosophy
De principiis naturae
c. 1252-1256
An early short work explaining matter, form, privation, generation, and the four causes.
Dieses Werk oeffnenPhilosophical treatise
De aeternitate mundi
c. 1270
Aquinas asks whether reason can prove the world had a temporal beginning and argues that temporal beginning is known by faith.
Dieses Werk oeffnenPolemic treatise
De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas
1270
Aquinas defends the individuality of the human intellect against Latin Averroist readings of Aristotle.
Dieses Werk oeffnenPolitical theology
De regno / On Kingship
c. 1267
A political work on rule, kingship, tyranny, civic order, and the common good.
Dieses Werk oeffnenPatristic Gospel commentary
Catena Aurea
1263-1268
A chained commentary on the four Gospels that gathers interpretations from Church Fathers.
Dieses Werk oeffnenTheological commentary
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard
1252-1256
Aquinas's early major theological work, written as part of his academic formation on Lombard's standard textbook.
Dieses Werk oeffnenScriptural commentary
Biblical Commentaries
1250s-1270s
Commentaries on books including Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Matthew, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Hebrews.
Dieses Werk oeffnenAristotelian commentary
Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
1271-1272
Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's central ethical work, treating happiness, virtue, prudence, friendship, and justice.
Dieses Werk oeffnenAristotelian commentary
Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics
1269-1272
A major commentary on being, substance, causality, act and potency, and wisdom.
Dieses Werk oeffnenAristotelian commentary
Commentary on Aristotle's Physics
1268-1269
Aquinas's commentary on motion, nature, change, time, place, and causality.
Dieses Werk oeffnenAristotelian commentary
Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima
1267-1268
A commentary on soul, life, perception, imagination, and intellect.
Dieses Werk oeffnenAristotelian commentary
Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
1271-1272, incomplete
An incomplete commentary on Aristotle's account of the city, citizenship, regimes, and political life.
Dieses Werk oeffnenLiturgical theology
Office and Hymns for Corpus Christi
1264
Liturgical texts traditionally attributed to Aquinas, including hymns associated with Corpus Christi and Eucharistic devotion.
Dieses Werk oeffnenEcumenical theology
Contra errores Graecorum
1263-1264
A work addressing theological disputes between Latin and Greek Christians, especially Trinitarian and ecclesial questions.
Dieses Werk oeffnenApologetic treatise
De rationibus fidei
1265
A short apologetic work explaining Christian doctrines in response to objections from Muslims, Greeks, and others.
Dieses Werk oeffnenPhilosophical theology
Expositio super Boethium De Trinitate
1257-1259
A commentary important for Aquinas's account of theology, philosophy, science, and the relation between faith and reason.
Dieses Werk oeffnen