A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners Discontinued The Prayer to Saint Michael

The Prayer to Saint Michael guides and comforts us in its assurance that the Prince of the Seraphim is right beside us

It begins our banquet at the table of the Lord

Paul saw the universal nature of the Christian message

together with a plan of action for making these works of mercy concrete and livable

The ox has long been part of Nativity tradition

A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners Discontinued The Prayer to Saint MichaelAuthor: Peter Kreeft A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs some 4000 pages! (The Summa of the Summa was just over 500.) The Summa is certainly the greatest, most ambitious, most rational book of theology ever written. In it, there is also much philosophy, which is selected, excerpted,