Or, alternatively titled: The website than which none greater can be conceived.
It started with my last post, when I made a Google search for “Aquinas commentary metaphysics,” with the aim of arriving at the Amazon.com page. What I found in addition to this, however, was something quite unexpected: an online, HTML, English version of the text, available here. Seeing that the url contained a root directory “CDtexts”, and thinking that the plural “texts” sounded promising, I did some manual navigating around the web page, and came across this index.
It looks like we have here about 90% of the known works of Aquinas, translated into English, available for all to read. This includes a full translation of the Summa Contra Gentiles, which up until this point I had only found abridged, even after extensive Google searching!
Notable also are a number of commentaries on scripture, a number of commentaries on Aristotle, and works on prayer, the creeds, and some sermons. You can find passages and complete translations of the Summa Theologiae almost anywhere; it’s Aquinas’ other works that can be murder to find, even in hard copy!
This is the kind of thing that I couldn’t have discovered soon enough. All hail the internet!
[...] months?) as I start making cursory glances through his works in English, found here and described here in my blog [...]
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