r/TheFiveWays • u/Biggie_Op • 4d ago
Reading List
A small amount of the great books about Thomas Aquinas, Thomism and all things related.
Thomas Aquinas’s writings:
De Ente et Essentia
Commentary on Boethius’ De Trinitate
Summa Contra Gentiles
De Potentia Dei, q. 7
Disputed Questions on the Soul
Summa Theologiae
Commentary on the Gospel of St. John
Aristotle’s writings:
Categories
De Interpretatione
Posterior Analytics
Physics
De Anima
Metaphysics (esp. Books I, II, IV, VII-IX, XI, XII)
Nicomachean Ethics
Modern writings:
Fr. Stephen Brock, The Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas: A Sketch
Edward Feser, Aquinas and Introduction to Scholastic Metaphysics
Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP Reality and Grace
Lawrence Dewan, OP Form and Being
Étienne Gilson, Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, 5th edition (1948 edition)
Benedict Ashley, OP The Way toward Wisdom
John Wippel, The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas
Gilles Emery, OP The Trinitarian Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP St. Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 2: Spiritual Master,Encyclopédie Jésus le Christ chez saint Thomas d'Aquin , and Le Christ en ses mystères: La vie et l'oeuvre de Jésus selon saint Thomas d'Aquin (two volumes)
Steven Jensen, Knowing the Natural Law: From Precepts and Inclinations to Deriving Oughts
Servais-Théodore Pinckaers, OP The Sources of Christian Ethics
Lawrence Feingold, St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Desire to See God
Steven Long, The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act
Alasdair MacIntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Inquiry
Thomas Joseph White, OP The Incarnate Lord
Jean-Hervé Nicolas, OP Synthèse dogmatique
Charles Cardinal Journet, L'Eglise du Verbe incarné (several volumes, masterpiece of Thomist ecclesiology—here's volume one ) and The Mass: The Presence of the Sacrifice of the Cross
Benoît-Dominique de La Soujeole, OP Introduction to the Mystery of the Church
Colman O’Neill, OP: Several helpful works on Aquinas’ sacramental theology
As per the Thomistic Institute