Summa Contra Gentiles: Creation: Book Two: Creation: 002 - Couverture souple

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

 
9780268016807: Summa Contra Gentiles: Creation: Book Two: Creation: 002
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0268016801 ISBN 13 : 9780268016807
Editeur : Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 1976

Synopsis

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 deals with God’s freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and the nature of man, particularly the unity of soul and body within man. Book 1 of the Summa deals with God; Book 3, Providence; and Book 4, Salvation.
 

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À propos de l'auteur

James F. Anderson is associate professor in the Biology department at Marquette University.

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Éditeur
Univ of Notre Dame Pr
Date d'édition
1976
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0268016801
ISBN 13 
9780268016807
Reliure
Copertina flessibile
Nombre de pages
351
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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