Summary Of The Summa Of St. Thomas, or Compedium Of Theology - Volume VI - Charles René Billuart

This sixth volume continues Billuart’s systematic summary of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, focusing on the final realities of human life and the completion of salvation history within Thomistic theology.

The work treats the last things (eschatology), including death, judgment, heaven, hell, and the resurrection of the body. Billuart presents these doctrines in a structured scholastic manner, explaining how the soul’s ultimate destiny follows from its rational nature and its orientation toward God as the final end.

He also addresses the consummation of human beatitude, emphasizing the vision of God as the perfection of all intellectual desire. The resurrection is discussed as the restoration and glorification of the human person in both soul and body, completing the work of divine providence.

Throughout the volume, Billuart maintains fidelity to Aquinas’s synthesis, presenting eschatological doctrines not as isolated teachings but as the necessary conclusion of the entire theological system. The result is a coherent account of the final fulfillment of human life in divine union.