Does the Summa Theologica retain esteemable contemporary relevancy?

Is this question real? Of course it fucking does. It's still the most important written thing in theology.

It's a pile of dogshit defending the most braindead hypothesis (abrahamic monotheism) of all time, what do you think?

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>>9744417

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Yes, although I believe his importance in philosophy has somewhat diminished with the recent transition to moral skepticism.

But Analytical Thomists is growing in popularity in some European university departments.

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>>9744417
I hope that's a meme

>>9744378
I just want to know if it's worth $200 or if some key theoretical idea of his was disproven by later advances in the science or technology which may have for example completely invalidated some key proposition or theory or concept of particular notoriety for which he may have been the progenitor. It's a question of naivete really, I've just entered the library and I have no idea where to start. All I know is I want to learn philosophy and theology and the history of spirituality and religion and its effect on our culture, the development of Europe and Western civilization. I'm just poking around in the dark trying to make sense of thousands of books, and seemingly all self-referencing no less, to try and find a starting point.

S-sorry

>>9744489
>I have no idea where to start
Augustine, you can't find a more esteemed or relevant author to western philosophy and theology, nearly everybody is built off his works.

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>>9744489
hope it helps

>>9744489
Summa is mostly for reference. If your new to theology get an intro or summation to Scholasticism Edward Feser and Peter Kreeft have some good books on the subject.

>>9744548
Why do people like Kreeft? He's too basic, I got extremely little from his book on Aquinas.
>>9744489
Thomism is a pretty huge thing and I would not tackle Aquinas before you know your Plato, Aristote and Augustine well and even then, Summa Contra Gentiles is a much more interesting work for philiosophy, partially because it doesn't spend 600 pages on angels.

>>9745721
Well, in my desire to start reading about the world I did impulse buy a complete volume of Plato's work. But since you recommend it as a starting point, what areas in this 2000-page collection is an appropriate starting point? Or perhaps the first 4-5 in order to start with.

Anywho, I checked some pdf of Summa and really liked Aquinas style of writing which is what interested me in it. I just finished reading two of Nietzsche books, Beyond Good and Evil and On Genealogy of Morals, and the hard part wasn't understanding the ideas as much as it was wading through N's difficult writing patterns without losing focus. I didn't have that problem with the few articles of Aquinas I looked at.

Thanks for any help

>>9745841
You should read the 4 trial and death dialogues, Timaeus, The Republic, Meno, Phaedo and Symposium. The rest are of course great, but not as important. You can always get back for the rest and this is about 800 pages so it's much more manageable.