A Companion to The Summa Volume I – The Architect of the Universe (Corresponding to the Summa Theologica Ia) by Walter Farrell, O.P,, S.T.D., S.T.M.(Member of the Thomistic Institute) a 457 page book, is a good book to read by a catholic if he or she is interested in deep learning on the catholic faith. It is published By Sheed & Ward publishing New York in 1941. It has:
IMPRIMI POTEST:
T.S. McDerMOTT, O.P., S.T.Lr., PRIOR PROVINCIALIS.
NIHIL OBSTAT:
JACOBUS C. KREANEY, O.P., S.T.Lr., ph.d.
JACOBUS M. EGAN, O.P., S.T.Lr., S.T.D.
ARTHUR J. SCANLAN, S.T.C. CENSOR LIBRORIUM, N. Y.
IMPRIMATUR;
+ FRANCIS J. SPELLMAN, ARCHBISHOP, N.Y.
The summary in the inner flap of this book reads as follows;
The present addition to the series of Companions to the Summa, originally designed to make St. Thomas available to everyone, completes the first three of a projected four volumes. Following the same plan as its two predecessors, the present volume, too, follows the order of St. Thomas, adheres strictly to his thought, but makes use of the idiom of the butcher and the baker and the candlestick maker.
The preceding two volumes completed St. Thomas’s moral treatises; this one opens up his dogmatic tracts. In it, the lay man is invited to look at the world and its author. The existence of God, the divine attributes, the Trinity, creation, the world of the angels, of men and of things are all examined profoundly, yet pleasantly, with and eye to the pertinence of the truths uncovered to the lives, loves and struggles of the men and women of our times.
Because these questions have received so much, and so derogatory, treatment from the thinkers of our times, the book is lighted up with the constant shower of sparks that fly from the clash of modern ideas and eternal truths. It is in this field that the most disastrous modern mistakes have been made, as it is in this field that the most sublime truths for human living are to be found.
The contents, minus the pages, are as follows:
THE WISE MAN’S BOOK
HE WHO IS
THE INEFFABLE’
THE VISION OF GOD
FATHER OF ALL
THE INNER LIFE OF GOD
THE ARCHITECT AT WORK
THE ANGELIC WORLD
THE ANGELS’ VISION
ANGELIC SANTS AND SINNERS
THE KINGDOM OF MAN
LORD OF THE WORLD
THE WILL OF THE LORD OF THE WORLD
THE MIND OF THE LORD OF THE WORLD
EVE’S FAMILY AT HOME
GOVERNMENT OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD
GOVERNMENT OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD
THE ROLE OF THE ANGELS
THE ROLE OF MEN AND OF FATE
It is hoped that the reader will pick up this book and be inspired by the insights it brings to to read the rest of the volumes in the series. I later blogs I will endevor to review each of the books in the series, God willing.
Traditional Thomistic Catholic 