Why Aquinas? - Episode V, with Fr Gregory Pine, OP, BA, STL, Assistant Director for Campus Outreach at the Thomistic Institute.
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.” -St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae is his most perfect and influential work. The Summa is structured as a movement of going out from and returning to God (called—in Latin—the exitus-reditus schema). So, one begins by considering God in himself, and then the procession of creatures from God, and then their return to him in the moral life through Christ and his sacraments.
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