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In the quadrangle of the Old Schools he glanced round at the familiar labels, blue and gold, over the iron-studded doors, Schola Theologiae et Antiquae Philosophiae; Museum Arundelianum; Schola Musicae.
When she had washed the smell of the books off, she did her hair very carefully in a new way that seemed becoming, and went down to supper. Her step-father only spoke once during the meal; he was luxuriating in the thought of the Summa Theologiae of Aquinas in leather still brown and beautiful, which he had providentially discovered in the wash-house of an ailing Parishioner.
Have mercy upon me, O GOD, have mercy upon me; years and infirmities oppress me, terrour and anxiety beset me. Amen . While he was at church, the agreeable impressions upon his mind are thus commemorated: 'I was for some time distressed, but at last obtained, I hope from the GOD of Peace, more quiet than I have enjoyed for a long time. "Vita ordinanda. Biblia legenda. Theologiae opera danda.
He also laid siege to science, sought to make it his own, dreamt of defending God with the weapons of reason and human knowledge like a true forerunner of the angelic St. Thomas, that light of the middle ages, who joined the Dominican order and set everything in his "Summa Theologiae," psychology, logic, policy, and morals.
Opposite, we see a representation of the triumph of the greatest of the Dominicans, after its founder, S. Thomas Aquinas, the author of the "Summa Theologiae," who died in 1274.
It is in my conviction the best Summa Theologiae Evangelicae ever produced by a writer not miraculously inspired." Without questioning this verdict, we would include in the encomium some of his other writings, which possibly Coleridge never saw. Such as the Tracts contained in this volume.
In the same proportion, both Church and Faith were obliged to gradually disappear; so that in the eighteenth century English and French philosophers became direct antagonists, until finally, under Frederick the Great, Kant came and took away from religious belief the support it had formerly received from philosophy, and emancipated the ancilla theologiae in that he attacked the question with German thoroughness and perseverance, whereby it received a less frivolous, that is to say, a more earnest tone.
But it is far otherwise with our temples, or places of church assemblies, “because our temples contain nothing sacramental in them, such as the tabernacle and temple contained,” as the most learned Professors of Leyden said rightly in Synops. Pur. Theologiae, disp. 48, thes. 47.
To adopt Coleridge's expression concerning Bunyan's greater and world-famous work, it is an admirable "Summa Theologiae Evangelicae," which, notwithstanding its obsolete style and old-fashioned arrangement, may be read even now with advantage. Bunyan's denunciation of the tenets of the Quakers speedily elicited a reply.
Elsewhere, too, Erasmus indulges this proclivity for accumulating the treasures of his genius; he and his contemporaries can never restrain themselves from giving all the instances instead of one: in Ratio verae theologiae, in De pronuntiatione, in Lingua, in Ecclesiastes. The senses are open for the nice observation of the curious.
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