{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-summa-volume-iii","title":"A Companion to the Summa, Volume III","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Walter Farrell, O.P.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Summa Theologiae \u003c\/b\u003eis a work of astounding breadth and scope: five folio vol­umes of closely packed print, and more closely packed thought; incredibly, it was a work intended, not for the learned and wise, but for beginners. Walter Farrell, O.P., fully honors that intention with his four \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003evolumes to the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e, which together offer an easy guidebook to St. Thomas’s greatest work. These are not simply more books about St. Thomas or about the \u003ci\u003eSumma\u003c\/i\u003e; rather, they are a distillation of the \u003ci\u003eSumma \u003c\/i\u003einto popular and accessible form, a unique introduction to the thought of the Angelic Doctor and a defense of the truths, natural and divine, by which human life is lived.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVolume III: The Fullness of Life \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003epresents St. Thomas’s superb study of human living in all its exuberant totality, encompassing a brilliant and expansive examination of the habits of happiness (virtue) and habits of unhappiness (vice). In neat and orderly fashion, Farrell follows the Angelic Doctor’s lead in considering freedom as the key to the fullness of life and the divine gifts which secure that freedom: faith for man’s mind, hope and charity for his will, and the myriad attendant virtues of those gifts—justice, temperance, prudence, courage, humility, and more. An invigorating rebuttal to modernity’s unholy confusion over human nature and destiny, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the Summa, Volume III: The Fullness of Life \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the wide, inspiring world in which the Creator has set men and women to live and to play, to work and to worship—in truth.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgetting God, our times have not recognized men and have yet to see the world.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe are learned but far from wise. This is Thomas’s book of wisdom, his searching\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eexamination of the profound reasons, his handbook of the important answers. \u003c\/i\u003e(Walter Farrell, O.P.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Farrell, O.P., \u003c\/b\u003e(1902–1951) was a Dominican priest and scholar. He was the founder of the speculative quarterly \u003ci\u003eThe Thomist \u003c\/i\u003eand was a frequent contributor to numerous scholarly and spiritual periodicals. His masterpiece is certainly the bestselling, four-volume \u003ci\u003eCompanion to the Summa\u003c\/i\u003e, which was instrumental in the popularization of the \u003ci\u003eSumma Theologiae\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 418pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953232\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100039864687,"sku":"978-1685953232","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product213.jpg?v=1781124882","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/a-companion-to-the-summa-volume-iii","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}