A Shorter Summa: The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica

A shortened version of Kreeft's much larger Summa of the Summa, which in turn was a shortened version of the Summa Theologica. The reason for the double shortening is pretty obvious: the original runs…

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