Medieval Theological Summas and Their Structure. Genological Analysis of "The Summa Theologica" by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Rafał Wilkołek

Abstract

This article is a part of M.A. thesis entitled “The Foundations of Aristotelianism as a Theological locus in The Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas. The Ontological Analysis of the Union of the Incarnated Word.”. In this article the author tries to show that The Summa Theologica by Saint Thomas Aquinas was written according to an individual, original and well-considered structural idea. According to the author The Summa’s Christ and incarnation mystery centred worldview gives to Neoplatonic exitus-reditus scheme that was used in The Summa and other medieval theological compendiums (thanks to reditus per Christum) the Christophoric nature. In addition, it gives to the entirety of the Aquinas’ concept the incarnation and Christ centred dynamic.