Works by Thomas Aquinas

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The works of Thomas Aquinas are tremendous both in number and in philosophical and theological depth. It has been said that few philosophers or theologians have written so much of high quality in the amount of time used by St. Thomas: a little less than three decades.

1 Summary of works
2 Exegetical, homiletical, and liturgical writings
3 List of works
4 Editions
5 References

[edit] Summary of works

Three theological syntheses, or Summas	Nine treatises in the form of academic disputations	Twelve quodlibetal disputations
Nine exegeses of Scriptural books	A collection of glosses from the Church Fathers on the Gospels	Eleven expositions of Aristotelian works
Two expositions of works by Boethius	Two expositions of works by Proclus	Five polemical works
Five expert opinions, or "responsa"	Fifteen letters on theological, philosophical, or political subjects	A liturgical text
Two famous prayers	Approximately 85 sermons	Eight philosophical treatises

[edit] Exegetical, homiletical, and liturgical writings

Commentaries on Job (1261-65), Psalms i - li, and Isaiah
Catena aurea ("The Golden Chain," a fourteenth-century title), a monumental collection of glosses by the Church Fathers on each verse of the Gospels
Commentaries on Canticles and Jeremiah
reportata, on John, on Matthew, and on the epistles of Paul, including Hebrews i - x.
Officium de corpora Christi

[edit] List of works

Major works are in bold.

[edit] Works in chronological order

Title	Date
De fallaciis ad quosdam nobiles artistas	1244-1245
De propositionibus modalibus	by 1251
On the Principles of Nature (De principiis naturae ad fratrem Sylvestrum)	c. 1255
*On Being and Essence (De ente et essentia, ad fratres socios)*	1252-1256
Contra impugnantes Dei cultum et religionem	1256
Scripta super libros Sententiarum	1256
Two Sermons from MS Florence [Principium (?)]	1256 (?)
*Disputed Questions on Truth (Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate)*	1256-1259
Commentary on the Gospel of St. Matthew (Expositio in evangelicum s. Mattaei)	1256-1259 or 1269-1272
Literal Commentary on Job (Expositio in Job ad litteram)	1260
Commentary on Boethius's Book De hebdomadibus (Expositio in librum Boethii De hebdomadibus)	c. 1260
Commentary on Boethius's Book On the Trinity (Expositio super librum Boethii De Trinitate)	by 1261
De articulis fidei et Ecclesiae sacramentis, ad archiepiscopum Panormitanum	c. 1261
De emptione et venditione ad tempus	1262
*Summa contra Gentiles (Tractatus de fide catholica, contra Gentiles [contra errores infidelium])*	1261-1263
*Against the Errors of the Greeks, to Pope Urban IV (Contra errores Graecorum, ad Urbanum IV Pontificem Maximum)*	1263
Sermon on the Holy Eucharist preached in Consistory before Pope Urban IV and the Cardinals	1264
*Officium de festo Corporis Christi, ad mandatum Urbani Papae IV*	1264
On the Reasons of the Faith against the Saracens, Greeks and Armenians, to the Cantor of Antioch (De rationibus fidei contra Saracenos, Gracos et Armenos, ad Cantorem Antiochiae)	1261-1264
*The Golden Chain (Glossa (expositio) continua in Mattheum, Marcum, Lucam, Joannem [Catena aurea])*	1263ff.
Responsio ad fr. Joannem Vercellensem, Generalem Magistrum Ordinis Praedicatorum, de articulis CVIII ex opere Petri de Tarentasia	by 1266
Disputed Questions on the Soul (Quaestiones disputatae de Anima)	1267
*On Kingship, to the King of Cyprus (De regno [De regimine principum), ad regem Cypri)*	1267
Expositio in Dionysium De divinis nominibus	by 1268
Expositio super primam decretalem "De fide catholica et sancta Trinitate" et super secundam "Damnamus autem"	1259-1268
*Disputed Questions on the Power of God (Quaestiones disputatae de potentia Dei)*	1259-1268
Commentary on the Prophet Jeremiah (Expositio in Jeremiam prophetam)	1267-1268
Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (In libros posteriorum Analyticorum expositio)	c. 1268
*Commentary on Aristotle's De anima [On the Soul]* (In libros De anima expositio)**	c. 1268
Commentary on Aristotle's On Sense and What Is Sensed (In librum De sensu et sensato expositio)	c. 1268
Commentary of Aristotle's Memory and Recollection (In librum De memoria et reminiscentia expositio)	c. 1268
*De substantiis seperatis, seu de angelorum natura, ad fr. Reginaldum, socium suum carissimum*	c. 1268
De secreto	by 1269
*Disputed Questions on Spiritual Creatures (Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis)*	1266-1269
De perfectione vitae spiritualis	1269
Commentary on the Book Of Causes (Super librum De causis expositio)	by 1270
*On the Unitity of the Intellect against the Averroists (De unitate intellectus, contra Averroistas)*	1270
De perfectione vitae spiritualis	1270
Contra pestiferam doctrinam retrahentium pueros a religionis ingressu	1270
Sermons from MSS Madrid and Sevilla	1270
Two sermons from MS Paris	1270
Sermon on Christ the King from MS Soissons	1270
*Commentary on the Eight Books of Physics* (In octo libros Physicorum expositio)**	1268-1271
De regimine Judaeorum, ad Ducissam Brabantiae	1270-1271
De aeternitate mundi, contra murmurantes	1271
Responsio ad fr. Joannem Vercellensem, Generalem Magistrum Ordinis Praedicatorum, de articulis XLII	1271
De motu cordis, ad Magistrum Philippum	1270-1271
De mixtione elementorum, ad Magistrum Philippum	c. 1271
Responsio ad lectorem Venetum de articulis XXXVI [two versions]	c. 1271
Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah (Expositio in Isaiam prophetam)	1256-1259 or 1269-1272
Four Exordia (Prothemata) of sermons from MS Angers	1269-1272
De forma absolutionis, ad Generalem Magistrum Ordinis	1269-1272
De occultis operationibus naturae, ad quendam militem ultramontanum	1269-1272
De sortibus ad Dominum Jacobum de ... (?)	1269-1272
Quaestiones disputatae de unione Verbi incarnati	1269-1272
*Disputed Questions on Evil (Quaestiones disputatae de malo)*	1269-1272
*Disputed Questions on the Virtues (Quaestiones disputatae de virtutibus)*	1269-1272
*Commentary on the Gospel of John (Expositio in evangelium Joannis)*	1269-1272
Commentary on Aristotle's Meteorology (In libros Meteorologicorum expositio)	1269-1271, 1269-1272 or 1272-1273
In libros Peri Hermeneias expositio	1269-1272
*Commentary on the Twelve Books of Metaphysics* (In duodecim libros Metaphysicorum expositio)**	1270-1272
*Commentary on the Ten Books of [Nicomachean] Ethics* (In decem libros Ethicorum expositio)**	1271-1272
*Commentary on Aristotle's Politics* (In libros Politicorum expositio)**	1271-1272
Quaestiones de quodlibet I-XII	1256-1259, 1269-1272
*Summa Theologiae*	1265-1272
Commentary of the Epistles of St. Paul (Expositio in s. Pauli Epistolas)	1259-1265 and 1272-1273 (?)
Commentary on the Psalms of David (In Psalmos Davidis expositio)	1272-1273
*Commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and Earth* (In libros De caelo et mundo expositio)**	1272-1273
Commentary on Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption (In libros De generatione et corruptione expositio)	1272-1273
Lenten Sermon-Cycle delivered at Naples (57 vernacular sermons, e.g., On the Two Laws of Charity and the Ten Commandments [De duobos praeceptis caritatis et decem legis praeceptis]; Devotissima expositio super symbolum apostolorum; Expositio devotissima orationis dominicae)	1273
Devotissima expositio super salutatione angelica	1269-1272 or 1273
Compendium of Theology (Compendium theologiae ad fratrem Reginaldum socium suum carissimum)	c. 1273 (?)
To Bernard, Abbot of Monte Cassino (Ad Bernardum, abbatem Cassinensem)	1274

[edit] Works of uncertain date

De iudiciis astrorum, ad quendam militem ultramontanum
De modo studendi
Commentary on the Song of Songs (Expositio in Canticum Canticorum)
Commentary on the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Expositio in Threnos Jeremiae prophetae)
Hymn: "Adoro te"
Hymn: "Concede mihi misericors Deus"
Quaestio disputata utrum anima coniuncta cognoscat seipsam per essentiam
Disputed Questions on the Immortality of the Soul (Quaestiones disputatae de immortalitate animae)
Responsio ad lectorem Bisuntinum de articulis VI
Three sermons from MS Paris
Three sermons from MS Venice

[edit] Works of uncertain authenticity

De demonstratione
De instantibus
De natura accidentium
De natura generis
De natura materiae et dimensionibus interminalis
De quatuor oppositis
De natura verbi intellectus
De principio individuationis
Sermon: Beata Virgo nec originale nec mortale nec veniale peccatum incurrit, 1269-1272 or 1273

[edit] Editions

The best modern edition of the works of Aquinas is that prepared at the expense of Leo XIII. (Rome, 1882-1903). The Abbé Migne published a very useful edition of the Summa Theologiae, in four 8vo vols., as an appendix to his Patrologiae Cursus Completus; English editions, J. Rickaby (London, 1872), J. M. Ashley (London, 1888).