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Summa contra gentiles. Book 1, God
Uniform Title
Summa contra gentiles. English
Title
Summa contra gentiles. Book 1, God / [electronic resource]. Saint Thomas Aquinas ; translated, with an introduction and notes by Anton C. Pegis.
ISBN
9780268045524
0268045526
9780268016784
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 1975. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (317 pages))
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Notes
Reprint of the edition published by Hanover House, Garden City, N.Y., under title: On the truth of the Catholic faith.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
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 than 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 which faith professes and reason investigates, and the consideration of the truth which 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 skeptics. In the fourth book Aquinas appeals to the authority of Sacred Scripture for those divine truths which surpass the capacity of reason.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-56) and indexes.
Contents
General introduction
I. St. Thomas and his writings
II. Aristotelianism and the occasion of the Summa contra gentiles
III. The plan of the Summa contra gentiles
Summa contra gentiles, Book one : God
I, The Christian God
II. The present translation.
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