ABSTRACT
The modern reader who wishes to understand Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224/25–74) will most often turn to the Angelic Doctor’s greatest work, the Summa theologiae. In this monumental summation of theology, Thomas’s teaching regarding the heavenly state can be found in the third part, known as the Supplement, in questions 92 to 96. This Supplement was constructed after Aquinas’s death using material taken from an earlier commentary written by Thomas on the fourth book of Peter Lombard’s Sentences. It was added by editors, probably working under the direction of Aquinas’s friend and companion Reginald of Piperno (d. 1348), in order to bring the Summa to completion.
