Philosophy & Theology

1. Summa Theologiae: Begin with Kreeft’s Summa of the Summa, then the real thing.
2. Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide: Act and potency, the four causes, and the Five Ways, made clear.
3. Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Why culture begins in contemplation and worship.
4. The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy: What “Christian philosophy” means, by its great historian.
5. Introduction to Christianity: The Creed, article by article.
6. Theology and Sanity: Dogma as the furniture of a sane mind.
7. An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent: How we really come to certainty.
8. The Idea of a University: The unity of knowledge and the place of theology.
9. The City of God: Two loves built two cities.
10. Pensées: The heart has its reasons.
11. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine: How doctrine grows without changing.

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