Shorter Summa: The Most Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Book

	Preface	11
	Introduction	13
	Glossary	27
I	Methodology: Theology as a Science
	Prologue	37
	The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine (I, 1)	39
II	Proofs for the Existence of God
	The Existence of God (I, 2)	45
III	The Nature of God
	Of the Simplicity of God (I, 3)	65
	The Existence of God in Things (I, 8)	69
	The Immutability of God (I, 9)	73
	The Names of God (I, 13)	75
	Of God's Knowledge (I, 14)	78
	Of Truth (I, 16)	81
	The Will of God (I, 19)	83
	God's Love (I, 20)	85
	The Providence of God (I, 22)	88
IV	Cosmology: Creation and Providence
	Of the Beginning of the Duration of Creatures (I, 46)	91
V	Anthropology: Body and Soul
	Of Man Who Is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: and in the First Place, concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul (I, 75)	99
	Of the Union of Body and Soul (I, 76)	103
VI	Epistemology and Psychology
	Of the Will (I, 82)	107
	Of Free-Will (I, 83)	111
	How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things beneath It (I, 84)	114
	Of the Mode and Order of Understanding (I, 85)	121
VII	Ethics
	Of Those Things in Which Man's Happiness Consists (I-II, 2)	131
	Of Goodness in General (I, 5)	150
	The Distinction of Things in Particular (I, 48)	151
	Of the Cardinal Virtues (I-II, 61)	153
	Of the Theological Virtues (I-II, 62)	155
	Of the Various Kinds of Law (I-II, 91)	157
	Of the Natural Law (I-II, 94)	161