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Blogging the Summa

One of the things I bought when I decided to pursue my master's in theology was a good copy of the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas. The edition above is a modern printing of what is considered to be the most faithful English translation of it, the edition done by the English Dominicans at the turn of the last century. My copy is from Notre Dame's Ave Maria Press, and is of the 1947 edition, with an imprimatur from Francis Cardinal Spellman, then Archbishop of New York. Back in the day, in other words, before the great apostasy, before zombies and neo-pagans and Lindsay Lohan roamed the Earth. Sauron was still a shadow then; he was unable to take physical form. You get my point. I'm not a crazy rad-trad Sedevacantist or anything, but when you get a Catholic book printed before 1960, it has a certain solidity to it.

At any rate, I'm off (academically) until the fall, and I'm considering going through the Summa, Question by Question, Article by Article, and blogging it.

I probably won't get through the whole thing, but it might be fun.

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