Thomas Aquinas S Summa Contra Gentiles

Author : Brian Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 504 pages
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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 : Aquinas Thomas, Saint,Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Aeterna Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Aquinas Thomas
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
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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

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Author : Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Thomas S. Hibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018277355

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Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas by Thomas S. Hibbs Pdf

Investigates the intent, method and structural unity of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles. The author of this study argues that the intended audience is Christian and that the subject is Christian wisdom.

Author : Norman Kretzmann,Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268074807

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Summa Contra Gentiles by St. Thomas Aquinas Pdf

Book Three, Part 1 of the Summa Contra Gentiles series is the first part of a treatise on the hierarchy of creation, the divine providence over all things, and man’s relation to God. 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. Book 1 of the Summa deals with God; Book 2, Creation; and Book 4, Salvation.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1570850003

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The Collected Works of St. Thomas Aquinas by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004181434

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Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard by Anonim Pdf

This volume studies how the tradition of the Sentences developed from the twelfth century up to Martin Luther. Its twelve chapters fill major lacunae in current research on the standard textbook of medieval theology.

Author : Matthew Kostelecky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 904292747X

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Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles by Matthew Kostelecky Pdf

The Summa contra gentiles is perhaps the most peculiar work of St. Thomas Aquinas, due to Thomas's decision to structure the work first according to what humans can say about God without revelation and then what humans can say about God once revelation is explicitly introduced. Such an approach to the human pursuit of the divine is otherwise unheard of in Thomas's own day, and this unusual structure has provided a fertile seedbed for a wide range of interpretations. Matthew Kostelecky's book shows the integral relationship between the conceptions of human nature and God operative throughout the Summa contra gentiles such that the text is always in a twofold movement, at once describing what humans can say about God while also reflecting human nature back on itself by delineating its limits and capabilities with respect to the possible human knowledge of God. As a result, the Summa contra gentiles is presented as a mirror of human nature as that nature is directed to its most noble object.

Author : S Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Brian Davies
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191520440

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The Thought of Thomas Aquinas by Brian Davies Pdf

Thomas Aquinas was one of the greatest Western philosphers and one of the greatest theologians of the Christian church. In this book we at last have a modern, comprehensive presentation of the total thought of Aquinas. Books on Aquinas invariably deal with either his philosophy or his theology. But Aquinas himself made no arbitrary division between his philosophical and his theological thought, and this book allows readers to see him as a whole. It introduces the full range of Aquinas' thinking; and it relates his thinking to writers both earlier and later than Aquinas himself.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : UOM:39015066430789

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The Summa Contra Gentiles of Saint Thomas Aquinas by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1570850003

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The Collected Works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Summa Contra Gentiles: Summa contra gentiles by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf