Summa Theologica is a book that is considered to be worthy enough to be placed side by side with the Holy Bible. During the Middle Ages, it was placed side by side in tabernacles.
It was left unfinished by its author, St. Thomas Aquinas. The latter died in March 7, 1274, and is considered the greatest Catholic theologian. He is one of the thirty three doctors of the Church, which includes Gregory the Great, Albert the Great, Catherine of Sienna and Teresa of Avila.
The Summa Theologica is famous for its quinquae viae or "Five Ways": five arguments for the existence of God. Aquinas' death in 1274 left the work, considered by many to be the greatest theological statement of the Middle Ages, incomplete. (www.en.wikipedia.org)
Will Durant, a staunch critic of the Church, wrote that Metaphysics has its humble beginnings in Aristotle, and it reached its "encyclopedic completion in Thomas Aquinas". (History of Philosophy).
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