Summa Contra Gentiles 4

Author : St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268074821

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Summa Contra Gentiles, 4 by St. Thomas Aquinas Pdf

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 is a study of what God has revealed through scripture, specifically the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the end of the world. Book 1 of the Summa deals with God; Book 2, Creation; and Book 3, Providence.

Author : Brian Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190456542

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Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles by Brian Davies Pdf

The Summa Contra Gentiles, one of Aquinas's best known works after the Summa Theologiae, is a philosophical and theological synthesis that examines what can be known of God both by reason and by divine revelation. A detailed expository account of and commentary on this famous work, Davies's book aims to help readers think about the value of the Summa Contra Gentiles (SCG) for themselves, relating the contents and teachings found in the SCG to those of other works and other thinkers both theological and philosophical. Following a scholarly account of Aquinas's life and his likely intentions in writing the SCG, the volume works systematically through all four books of the text.

Author : S Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473360709

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Catena Aurea. Commentary On The Four Gospels, Collected Out Of The Works Of The Fathers by S Thomas Aquinas Pdf

This antiquarian book contains Thomas Aquinas's "Catena Aurea". It is a comprehensive discussion and analysis of the four Gospels, by some of the greatest theologians to have ever graced the Catholic Church. Aquinas compiled this opus from sermons and commentaries on the Gospels written by the early Church Fathers. He arranged their thoughts in such a way that they form a continuous commentary on each Gospel, verse-by-verse. This book will prove invaluable for serious students of Catholicism, and is not to be missed by the discerning collector. Many vintage texts such as this - particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before - are increasingly hard to come by and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Aquinas Thomas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1015855210

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The Summa Contra Gentiles of Saint Thomas Aquinas; Volume 1 by Aquinas Thomas Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199246533

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The Metaphysics of Theism by Norman Kretzmann Pdf

Norman Kretzmann expounds and criticises Aquinas' theology of creation, which is natural (or philosophical) in that Aquinas developed it without depending on the data of Scripture.

Author : Aquinas Thomas, Saint,Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1530512433

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Of God and His Creatures by Aquinas Thomas, Saint,Thomas Aquinas Pdf

SOME years ago, a priest of singularly long and varied experience urged me to write “a book about God.” He said that wrong and imperfect notions of God lay at the root of all our religious difficulties. Professor Lewis Campbell says the same thing in his own way in his work, Religion in Greek Literature, where he declares that the age needs “a new definition of God.” Thinking the need over, I turned to the Summa contra Gentiles. I was led to it by the Encyclical of Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris, urging the study of St Thomas. A further motive, quite unexpected, was supplied by the University of Oxford in 1902 placing the Summa Contra Gentiles on the list of subjects which a candidate may at his option offer in the Final Honour School of Literae Humaniores,—a very unlikely book to be offered so long as it remains simply as St Thomas wrote it. Lastly I remembered that I had in 1892 published under the name of Aquinas Ethicus a translation of the principal portions of the second part of St Thomas’s Summa Theologica: thus I might be reckoned some thing of an expert in the difficult art of finding English equivalents for scholastic Latin.

Author : Rémi Brague
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268105716

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Curing Mad Truths by Rémi Brague Pdf

In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving. Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.

Author : Norman Kretzmann,Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198237877

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The Metaphysics of Creation by Norman Kretzmann,Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Norman Kretzmann Pdf

Norman Kretzmann expounds and criticizes Aquinas's theology of creation, which is natural' (or philosophical) in that Aquinas developed it without depending on the data of Scripture. Because of the special importance of intellective creatures like us, Aquinas's account of the divine origin and organization of the universe includes essential ingredients of his philosophy of mind. The Metaphysics of Creation is a continuation of the project Kretzmann began inThe Metaphysics of Theism; as before, he not only explains Aquinas's natural theology, but advocates it as the best available to us.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Responder Media
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781470500153

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Student of the Gun by Anonim Pdf

Author : St Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Latin-English Opera Omnia
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1623400597

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Summa Contra Gentiles, Books III & IV (Latin-English Opera Omnia) by St Thomas Aquinas Pdf

The Summa Contra Gentiles is the second of Thomas Aquinas's three great theological syntheses, written after his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and before his Summa Theologiae. The Summa Contra Gentiles is commonly thought to be composed with a missionary intention, possibly for the use of Thomas's brethren in their work of explaining the faith to non-Christians, especially Muslims in Spain. This volume contains the third and fourth books of the Summa Contra Gentiles. Book 3 treats of God's providence over all of creation from the perspective of what can be known on the basis of human reason. Book 4 treats of matters of faith surpassing human reason: the Trinity of Persons in God, the Incarnation of the Divine Word, the Work of Salvation, and the Last Things.

Author : Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Sacraments
ISBN : 1623400384

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Commentary on the Sentences, Book IV, 1-13 by Thomas Aquinas Pdf

The Sentences of Peter Lombard was the standard theological text from the twelfth through the fifteenth century (and even well beyond that in some places); producing a commentary on it was the equivalent of a doctoral dissertation, since it qualified the commentator to teach at the university level. Accordingly, all of the famous medieval scholastics, from Alexander of Hales to John Duns Scotus to William of Ockham, produced their own commentaries on the Sentences. Appearing for the first time in English, this volume features a bilingual Latin-English edition of Aquinas' first major work, the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.

Author : Aquinas Thomas
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342714503

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The Summa Contra Gentiles of Saint Thomas Aquinas; Volume 4 by Aquinas Thomas Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas by Anonim Pdf

Author : St Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781602065536

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Summa Theologica, Volume 1 by St Thomas Aquinas Pdf

"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225 1274), widely considered the Catholic Church s greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinas s masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume I, Aquinas addresses: the existence and perfection of God the justice and mercy of God predestination the cause of evil the union of body and soul free will and fate and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

Author : Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Latin-English Opera Omnia
Page : 5256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1623400147

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Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas Pdf

The most important work of the towering intellectual of the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae remains one of the great seminal works of philosophy and theology, while extending to subjects as diverse as law and government, sacraments and liturgy, and psychology and ethics.