Main article: Thomas Aquinas
The works of Thomas Aquinas are tremendous both in number and in philosophical and theological depth. It has been said[by whom?] that few philosophers or theologians have written so much of high quality in the amount of time used by St. Thomas: a little less than three decades.
Summary of works[]
Three theological syntheses, or Summas | Nine treatises in the form of academic disputations | Twelve quodlibetal disputations |
Nine exegeses of Scriptural books | A collection of glosses from the Church Fathers on the Gospels | Eleven expositions of Aristotelian works |
Two expositions of works by Boethius | Two expositions of works by Proclus | Five polemical works |
Five expert opinions, or "responsa" | Fifteen letters on theological, philosophical, or political subjects | A liturgical text |
Two famous prayers | Approximately 85 sermons | Eight philosophical treatises |
Exegetical, homiletical, and liturgical writings[]
- Commentaries on Job (1261-65), Psalms i - li, and Isaiah
- Catena aurea ("The Golden Chain," a fourteenth-century title), a monumental collection of glosses by the Church Fathers on each verse of the Gospels
- Commentaries on Canticles and Jeremiah
- reportata, on John, on Matthew, and on the epistles of Paul, including Hebrews i - x.
- Officium de corpore Christi
List of works[]
Saint Thomas Aquinas' major works are in bold.
Works in chronological order[]
Title | Date |
---|---|
De fallaciis ad quosdam nobiles artistas | 1244-1245 |
De propositionibus modalibus | by 1251 |
On the Principles of Nature (De principiis naturae ad fratrem Sylvestrum) | c. 1255 |
On Being and Essence (De ente et essentia, ad fratres socios) | 1252-1256 |
Contra impugnantes Dei cultum et religionem | 1256 |
Scripta super libros Sententiarum | 1256 |
Two Sermons from MS Florence [Principium (?)] | 1256 (?) |
Disputed Questions on Truth (Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate) | 1256-1259 |
Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew (Expositio in evangelicum s. Mattaei) | 1256-1259 or 1269-1272 |
Literal Commentary on Job (Expositio in Job ad litteram) | 1260 |
Commentary on Boethius's Book De hebdomadibus (Expositio in librum Boethii De hebdomadibus) | c. 1260 |
Commentary on Boethius's Book On the Trinity (Expositio super librum Boethii De Trinitate) | by 1261 |
De articulis fidei et Ecclesiae sacramentis, ad archiepiscopum Panormitanum | c. 1261 |
De emptione et venditione ad tempus | 1262 |
Summa contra Gentiles (Tractatus de fide catholica, contra Gentiles [contra errores infidelium]) | 1261-1263 |
Against the Errors of the Greeks, to Pope Urban IV (Contra errores Graecorum, ad Urbanum IV Pontificem Maximum) | 1263 |
Sermon on the Holy Eucharist preached in Consistory before Pope Urban IV and the Cardinals | 1264 |
Officium de festo Corporis Christi, ad mandatum Urbani Papae IV | 1264 |
On the Reasons of the Faith against the Saracens, Greeks and Armenians, to the Cantor of Antioch (De rationibus fidei contra Saracenos, Gracos et Armenos, ad Cantorem Antiochiae) | 1261-1264 |
The Golden Chain (Glossa (expositio) continua in Mattheum, Marcum, Lucam, Joannem [Catena aurea]) | 1263ff. |
Responsio ad fr. Joannem Vercellensem, Generalem Magistrum Ordinis Praedicatorum, de articulis CVIII ex opere Petri de Tarentasia | by 1266 |
Disputed Questions on the Soul (Quaestiones disputatae de Anima) | 1267 |
On Kingship, to the King of Cyprus (De regno [De regimine principum), ad regem Cypri) | 1267 |
Expositio in Dionysium De divinis nominibus | by 1268 |
Expositio super primam decretalem "De fide catholica et sancta Trinitate" et super secundam "Damnamus autem" | 1259-1268 |
Disputed Questions on the Power of God (Quaestiones disputatae de potentia Dei) | 1259-1268 |
Commentary on the Prophet Jeremiah (Expositio in Jeremiam prophetam) | 1267-1268 |
Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (In libros posteriorum Analyticorum expositio) | c. 1268 |
Commentary on Aristotle's De anima [On the Soul] (In libros De anima expositio) | c. 1268 |
Commentary on Aristotle's On Sense and What Is Sensed (In librum De sensu et sensato expositio) | c. 1268 |
Commentary of Aristotle's Memory and Recollection (In librum De memoria et reminiscentia expositio) | c. 1268 |
De substantiis seperatis, seu de angelorum natura, ad fr. Reginaldum, socium suum carissimum | c. 1268 |
De secreto | by 1269 |
Disputed Questions on Spiritual Creatures (Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis) | 1266-1269 |
De perfectione vitae spiritualis | 1269 |
Commentary on the Book Of Causes (Super librum De causis expositio) | by 1270 |
On the Unity of the Intellect against the Averroists (De unitate intellectus, contra Averroistas) | 1270 |
De perfectione vitae spiritualis | 1270 |
Contra pestiferam doctrinam retrahentium pueros a religionis ingressu | 1270 |
Sermons from MSS Madrid and Sevilla | 1270 |
Two sermons from MS Paris | 1270 |
Sermon on Christ the King from MS Soissons | 1270 |
Commentary on the Eight Books of Physics (In octo libros Physicorum expositio) | 1268-1271 |
De regimine Judaeorum, ad Ducissam Brabantiae | 1270-1271 |
De aeternitate mundi, contra murmurantes | 1271 |
Responsio ad fr. Joannem Vercellensem, Generalem Magistrum Ordinis Praedicatorum, de articulis XLII | 1271 |
De motu cordis, ad Magistrum Philippum | 1270-1271 |
De mixtione elementorum, ad Magistrum Philippum | c. 1271 |
Responsio ad lectorem Venetum de articulis XXXVI [two versions] | c. 1271 |
Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah (Expositio in Isaiam prophetam) | 1256-1259 or 1269-1272 |
Four Exordia (Prothemata) of sermons from MS Angers | 1269-1272 |
De forma absolutionis, ad Generalem Magistrum Ordinis | 1269-1272 |
De occultis operationibus naturae, ad quendam militem ultramontanum | 1269-1272 |
De sortibus ad Dominum Jacobum de ... (?) | 1269-1272 |
Quaestiones disputatae de unione Verbi incarnati | 1269-1272 |
Disputed Questions on Evil (Quaestiones disputatae de malo) | 1269-1272 |
Disputed Questions on the Virtues (Quaestiones disputatae de virtutibus) | 1269-1272 |
Commentary on the Gospel of John (Expositio in evangelium Joannis) | 1269-1272 |
Commentary on Aristotle's Meteorology (In libros Meteorologicorum expositio) | 1269-1271, 1269-1272 or 1272-1273 |
In libros Peri Hermeneias expositio | 1269-1272 |
Commentary on the Twelve Books of Metaphysics (In duodecim libros Metaphysicorum expositio) | 1270-1272 |
Commentary on the Ten Books of [Nicomachean] Ethics (In decem libros Ethicorum expositio) | 1271-1272 |
Commentary on Aristotle's Politics (In libros Politicorum expositio) | 1271-1272 |
Quaestiones de quodlibet I-XII | 1256-1259, 1269-1272 |
Summa_Theologica | 1265-1272 |
Commentary of the Epistles of St. Paul (Expositio in s. Pauli Epistolas) | 1259-1265 and 1272-1273 (?) |
Commentary on the Psalms of David (In Psalmos Davidis expositio) | 1272-1273 |
Commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and Earth (In libros De caelo et mundo expositio) | 1272-1273 |
Commentary on Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption (In libros De generatione et corruptione expositio) | 1272-1273 |
Lenten Sermon-Cycle delivered at Naples (57 vernacular sermons, e.g., On the Two Laws of Charity and the Ten Commandments [De duobos praeceptis caritatis et decem legis praeceptis]; Devotissima expositio super symbolum apostolorum; Expositio devotissima orationis dominicae) | 1273 |
Devotissima expositio super salutatione angelica | 1269-1272 or 1273 |
Compendium of Theology (Compendium theologiae ad fratrem Reginaldum socium suum carissimum) | c. 1273 (?) |
To Bernard, Abbot of Monte Cassino (Ad Bernardum, abbatem Cassinensem) | 1274 |
Works of uncertain date[]
De iudiciis astrorum, ad quendam militem ultramontanum |
De modo studendi |
Commentary on the Song of Songs (Expositio in Canticum Canticorum) |
Commentary on the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Expositio in Threnos Jeremiae prophetae) |
Hymn: "Adoro te" |
Hymn: "Concede mihi misericors Deus" |
Quaestio disputata utrum anima coniuncta cognoscat seipsam per essentiam |
Disputed Questions on the Immortality of the Soul (Quaestiones disputatae de immortalitate animae) |
Responsio ad lectorem Bisuntinum de articulis VI |
Three sermons from MS Paris |
Three sermons from MS Venice |
Works of uncertain authenticity[]
De demonstratione |
De instantibus |
De natura accidentium |
De natura generis |
De natura materiae et dimensionibus interminalis |
De quatuor oppositis |
De natura verbi intellectus |
De principio individuationis |
Sermon: Beata Virgo nec originale nec mortale nec veniale peccatum incurrit, 1269-1272 or 1273 |
Editions[]
The best Template:Peacock term modern edition of the works of Aquinas is that prepared at the expense of Leo XIII. (Rome, 1882-1903). The Abbé Migne published a very useful Template:Peacock term edition of the Summa Theologiae, in four 8vo vols., as an appendix to his Patrologiae Cursus Completus; English editions, Joseph Rickaby (London, 1872), J. M. Ashley (London, 1888).
References[]
- I.T. Eschmann, O.P., 1956 catalog of Thomas's works