| Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God Contributor(s): Aquinas, Thomas (Author), Pegis, Anton C. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0268016771 ISBN-13: 9780268016777 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1975 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Apologetics - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Medieval - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| Dewey: 239 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.14 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Theometrics - Catholic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master and assimilate the intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the Summa Aquinas works to save and purify the thought of the Greeks and the Arabs in the higher light of Christian Revelation, confident that all that had been rational in the ancient philosophers and their followers would become more rational within Christianity. This exposition and defense of divine truth has two main parts: the consideration of that truth that faith professes and reason investigates, and the consideration of the truth that faith professes and reason is not competent to investigate. The exposition of truths accessible to natural reason occupies Aquinas in the first three books of the Summa. His method is to bring forward demonstrative and probable arguments, some of which are drawn from the philosophers, to convince the skeptic. In the fourth book of the Summa St. Thomas appeals to the authority of the Sacred Scripture for those divine truths that surpass the capacity of reason. The present volume studies God's existence, nature, and substance, and especially his perfect actuality, the autonomy of his knowledge, the independence of his will, the perfection of his life, and the generosity of his love. Book 2 of the Summa deals with Creation; Book 3, Providence; and Book 4, Salvation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aquinas, Thomas: - St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is a Doctor of the church. He was an Italian Dominican friar and Roman Catholic priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, Aquinas was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism. |