This book is an excellent introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas. There are tons of footnotes that really bring home the main points in each article. This is a "must have" book for the novice philosopher.

This book is exactly what I was looking for. I'm a college freshman and one of my classes is going through St. Thomas' Summa and this book is great at explaining important details.

This book is exactly what I was looking for. I'm a college freshman and one of my classes is going through St. Thomas' Summa and this book is great at explaining important details.

I still don't have my book yet! It was supposed to arrive a month ago! Not sure what's going on because Amazon is usually pretty prompt.

Sitting in a coffee shop reading a commentary on the Summa, I was approached by a St. Thomas University professor whose specialty was St. Thomas; she asked me why of all things was I reading a book on St. Thomas. I told I had enjoyed St. Augustine's City of God and how a friend with a middle name of Thomas, who's father's middle name was Thomas, and who's grandfather's middle name was Thomas told me that I should read St. Thomas if I liked Augustine so much. The professor agreed and said that St. Thomas quoted Augustine much. So, armed with information that A Summa of the Summa was the definitive collection of St Thomas' work, I put down the commentary and immediately ordered a copy from Amazon. I was surprised though to find little similarity between the authors. Augustine is a theologian, while Thomas is a philosopher/logician. Though for well-rounded thinkers, the paths of these sets of disciplines should regularly cross, they are as yet distinctly different fields of study. As an engineer with a reasonably firm grasp of logic, my preference is to pursue more enjoyable reading, which I found to be Augustine's City of God and to a lesser degree his Confessions. The Summa of the Summa is page after page of unadulterated, dry logic. Ouch!