A Companion to the Summa-Volume I: The Architect of the Universe - Walter Farrell

nThe Summa Theologiae is a work of astounding breadth and scope: five folio vol-umes of n nclosely packed print, and more closely packed thought; incredibly, it was a work intended, not n nfor the learned and wise, but for beginners. Walter Farrell, O.P., fully honors that intention with n nhis four Companion volumes to the Summa, which together offer an easy guidebook to St. n nThomas's greatest work. These are not simply more books about St. Thomas or about the n nSumma; rather, they are a distillation of the Summa into popular and accessible form, a unique n nintroduction to the thought of the Angelic Doctor and a defense of the truths, natural and divine, n nby which human life is lived. n n nn nVolume I: The Architect of the Universe presents St. Thomas's rich and masterly study of God, n nman, and the world, as found in the first part of the Summa. In neat and orderly fashion, Farrell n nfollows the Angelic Doctor's lead, considering the universal harmony of creation and its Creator, n nproviding the arguments of God's existence, studying the divine nature and attributes, and n nexamining the procession of creatures from their divine Creator, the manner of their production n nand their distinction into angelic, corporal, and human natures. A bold rebuke of the confusions n nand deceptions peculiar to the modern age, A Companion to the Summa, Volume I: The Architect n nof the Universe powerfully illuminates the fundamental truths about the nature of the human n nperson and the orderly planning of the divine architect.n