id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt rv042r3977q Christopher Wells Sacraments of the Incarnate Word: The Christological Form of the Summa theologiae 2009 .txt text/plain 432 11 35 By taking Christ as Word as its focus, the present study aims to elucidate the most basic theological and rhetorical structure of Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae, without which claims of christological centrality in the work as a whole remain intuitive and gestural at best. First, Aquinas identifies Jesus Christ as Word in the prima pars in a series of questions on the Trinity that consolidate and elaborate his earlier claim in the first question that God is the 'subject' of the science of sacred doctrine. cache/rv042r3977q.txt txt/rv042r3977q.txt