Ninety-nine Homilies of St. Thomas Aquinas upon the Epistles and Gospels

Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Angelical Doctor, ranks among the most consequential theologians in Christian history. These ninety-nine homilies, composed as sermon outlines for the Advent season, offer not finished speeches but skeletons rich with suggestive hints. They display Aquinas's extraordinary command of Scripture and the medieval preacher's art: bones of doctrine laid bare, awaiting the pastor's voice to give them flesh. The translator has preserved this skeletal character deliberately, believing the outlines' power lies in what they suggest rather than state. Reading these homilies becomes an act of imagination: one traces Aquinas's pointers through Romans and Matthew, through Paul's thorny churches and Luke's annunciations, and supplies the filling. For clergy preparing Advent sermons, for theology students seeking the roots of homiletic tradition, or for anyone curious how the greatest medieval mind taught the faith, these outlines reveal a mind in conversation with Scripture across centuries.