Summa Theologica, Prima Pars, Initial Questions: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Summa Theologica, Prima Pars, Initial Questions, 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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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Summa Theologica, Prima Pars, Questions 1-26, by Thomas Aquinas. Read by Jim Ruddy. The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265 and 1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. It summarizes the reasonings for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, which, before the Protestant Reformation, subsisted solely in the Roman Catholic Church. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God, God's creation, Man, Man's purpose, Christ, the Sacraments, and back to God.(Summary adapted from the Wikipedia) This is part one of the Prima Pars (first part, or volume), consisting of the Initial Questions.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Summa Theologica, Prima Pars, Initial Questions
• Author credits: Saint Thomas Aquinas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 12:44:37

Catalogue topics

• aquinas
• religion

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Prologue; Question 1: The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine — 45:47
2. Prima Pars, Initial Questions, Question 13, The Names of God — 1:12:17
3. 02 - Question 2: The Existence of God — 21:23
4. 03 - Question 3: On the Simplicity of God — 37:51
5. 04 - Question 4: The Perfection of God — 15:06
6. 05 - Question 5: Of Goodness in General — 29:38
7. 06 - Question 6: The Goodness of God — 15:30
8. 07 - Question 7: The Infinity of God — 20:54
9. 08 - Question 8: The Existence of God in Things — 22:37
10. 09 - Question 9: The Immutability of God — 11:58
11. 10 - Question 10: The Eternity of God — 17:45
12. 11 - Question 11: The Unity of God — 18:43
13. 12 - Question 12: How God is Known by Us — 1:02:11
14. 14a - Question 14: The Knowledge of God — 40:35
15. 14b - Question 14: The Knowledge of God — 42:09
16. 15 - Question 15: Of Ideas — 16:20
17. 16 - Question 16: Of Truth — 36:39
18. 17 - Question 17: Of Falsity — 20:12
19. 18 - Question 18: The Life of God — 23:40
20. 19 - Question 19: The Will of God — 1:00:51
21. 20 - Question 20: God's Love — 23:48
22. 21 - Question 21: The Justice and Mercy of God — 18:29
23. 22 - Question 22: The Providence of God — 23:57
24. 23 - Question 23: Of Predestination — 45:24

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