In this Book
- Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence, Part II
- Book
- 1975
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
Book Three, Part 2 of the Summa Contra Gentiles series is the second 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.
Table of Contents
- Contents Part II
- pp. 5-9
- 93. On fate: whether and what it is
- pp. 49-50
- 101. On miracles
- pp. 81-83
- 102. That God alone works miracles
- pp. 83-86
- 110. Answer to the previous arguments
- pp. 112-113
- 114. That laws are divinely given to man
- pp. 122-124
- 123. That matrimony should be indivisible
- pp. 147-150
- 133. In what way poverty is good
- pp. 177-179
- 138. Against those who attack vows
- pp. 196-199
- 152. That divine grace causes faith in us
- pp. 235-237
- 153. That divine grace causes hope in us
- pp. 237-239
- 158. How man is freed from sin
- pp. 256-259
- Subject Index
- pp. 269-279
- Index of Proper Names
- pp. 280-282
Additional Information
Copyright
1956