ShelfLook
Tools About
Cover of A Shorter Summa

How long does it take to read A Shorter Summa?

the most essential philosophical passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologica

Thomas Aquinas, Peter Kreeft

A Shorter Summa by Thomas Aquinas, Peter Kreeft takes about 3 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 5 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1993. 168 pages, about 46,200 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 8 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 5 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 56 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

Subjects: Doctrines, Doctrinal Theology, Catholic Church, Theology, doctrinal

More by Thomas Aquinas

Books like this

Popular books of similar length