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KREEFT, PETER. Summa Philosophica. South Bend: St. Augustine's Press, 2012. xviii + 254pp. Cloth, $30.00-Having tried his hand at several Socratic dialogues, Peter Kreeft now turns to the form of dialogical writing employed by the Scholastics of the late Middle Ages, namely, the question-article, objection-answer-reply format that can be found in the great summae. Hence the title of the work: Summa Philosophica. Kreeft's book, however, lacks the scientific coherence of these medieval magna opera that inspire his endeavor. Instead, he opts for a more inelastic and "arbitrary" (as Kreeft himself admits) division of philosopical inquiry into ten questions with ten articles each. This fact alone may make one question the degree to which this work should be likened to the medieval summae. Given the wide range of topics that Kreeft covers and the arbitrary order in which he covers them, Summa Philosophica resembles more the quaestiones quodlibeta ("whatever questions") or perhaps the quaestiones disputatae ("disputed questions") that the medieval masters undertook during the penitential seasons of the year. In reading this book, one can easily imagine Kreeft standing before a group of undergraduates, suggesting a topic of philosophical inquiry, and then responding to his students' questions within that topic. Indeed, the colloquial mode of expression found throughout the book makes it easy to envision such a scenario, and I imagine that some readers-perhaps especially younger ones with little experience in philosophy-will find Kreeft's approach appealing.