Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas, credited to Saint Thomas Aquinas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas by Saint Thomas Aquinas. (Translated by Joseph Rickaby; Dominican Order.) Read in English by E. Sharp. "Saint Thomas Aquinas is the figure chosen out by Dante in the Paradiso to sing the glories of truth which stretched from God in His heaven to the abyss, and his fame as a thinker has grown with the ages and is as fresh to-day as it was in his lifetime... Since no one book can do S. Thomas justice, I have been forced to pick and choose out of his works a series of passages which will be sufficiently long and interconnected to convey the main theme of his philosophy. In the selection made there are examples of his method of argument and the way he arrives at his favourite conclusions." - Summary by Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas
• Author credits: Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 8:56:11

Catalogue topics

• history
• religion
• compilation
• medieval philosophy
• st. thomas aquinas

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Preface — 12:13
2. 01 - Sermon for the Feast of St. Martin — 23:46
3. 02 - Sermon for the Feast of All Saints — 25:15
4. 03 - Sermon on the Body of the Lord — 12:10
5. 04 - Feast of Corpus Christi (Liturgical Offices) — 35:25
6. 05 - The Office of a Wise Man and Author's Intention (Summa Contra Gentiles) — 9:17
7. 06 - Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima — 40:38
8. 07 - Questions on The Law (Summa Theologica) — 25:34
9. 08 - Selections from "Summa Contra Gentiles" part 1 — 17:33
10. 09 - Selections from "Summa Contra Gentiles" part 2 — 15:19
11. 10 - Selections from "Summa Contra Gentiles" part 3 — 21:49
12. 11 - Selections from "Summa Contra Gentiles" part 4 — 23:57
13. 12 - Selections from "Summa Contra Gentiles" part 5 — 21:19
14. 13 - Selections from "Summa Contra Gentiles" part 6 — 17:14
15. 14 - Aristotle's Metaphysics — 18:12
16. 15 - Of Being and Essence — 12:26
17. 16 - Natural Reason and Salvation (Summa Theologica) — 5:19
18. 17 - Consideration of Creatures (Summa Contra Gentiles) — 4:42
19. 18 - Treatise on Truth — 16:29
20. 19 - Commentary on the "Divine Names" of Dionysus — 10:15
21. 20 - The Contemplative Life (Summa Theologica) part 1 — 46:43
22. 21 - The Contemplative Life (Summa Theologica) part 2 — 14:20
23. 22 - The Act of Faith (Summa Theologica) — 5:57
24. 23 - Of Christ's Manner of Life (Summa Theologica) — 26:09

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