title: A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica
author:  Peter Kreeft 
description: Text: English (translation)<br> Original Language: Latin
zlib_text: THE SUMMA ABRIDGED 
  By REV. GERARD M. PARis, O.P. 
  Being an Abridgement of the Questions of the Entire Summa Theologica of 
  St. Thomas, Together with the Basic Reasons for Each of Their Artit'les 
  1950 
  Copyright© 2011 by Refuge of Sinners Publishing, Inc. 
  Pekin, Indiana 
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  AUTHOR'S PREFACE 
  Since we have already given the student of the Angelic Doctor the doctrine and 
  schematic division of the entire Summa in tract-and-question form, our present pwpose 
  is to reproduce all the questions as they are in the original, together with the basic re­
  sponses of each article, with notes where necessary, in a clear terse style suited to modern 
  readers.