What my plan is, is to write on the Summa as I go through the text. I have no more than a BA in Politics and History and am a Catholic. I came across this text through my studies in Political Science and specifically in review of Aristotle and Natural Law Theory. Without the basics of understanding Aristotle, some can be missed within the meanings in the text. Especially as Aquinas does use Aristotle's definitions within this text and is referred as a source on countless occasions as "the Philosopher".
If you wish to go through yourself I will go ahead and say if you can read a legal document, you can read this. If you can read a philosophical text you can make it through this. Now I say this as I have not yet done so, but I have read sections throughout the text and I know of its readability.
I say both legal and philosophical, because the way he wrote this document you can tell he did not want to leave any doubt for his audience. He starts with a "Question" and under these "Questions" he has several articles. I put the question in quotes because they are not always in question form. Its more like a topic and subtopics. Within the text he always goes through this by stating the question, giving objections, an answer with source, a description and finally the answer to the objections. It is incredibly thorough and from I have read so far his logic is amazing.
If interested in St. Thomas Aquinas I recommend a short text on him specifically called The Dumb Ox. The man was amazing and his accomplishments were so too. But what I find interesting was that in the end of his life he stated that all his life works was, "like straw" in comparison to a revelation he had. We don't know what this means, but I think he did great service to his Creator because it gave the idea that our science and our reason can be used with our faith.
I will start with Prima Pars, which is broken down into 119 Questions on its own. Lets see how far we can go with this. Hope you join!
