In this Book
- Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God
- Book
- 1975
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
Book One of the Summa Contra Gentiles series studies God's existence, nature, and substance, his perfect actuality, the autonomy of his knowledge, the independence of his will, the perfection of his life, and the generosity of his love.
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 2 of the Summa deals with Creation; Book 3, Providence; and Book 4, Salvation.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-8
- General Introduction
- pp. 15-44
- Summa Contra Gentiles, Book One: God
- pp. 45-56
- On the Truth of the Catholic Faith
- Chapter 15. That God Is Eternal
- pp. 98-99
- Chapter 17. That There Is No Matter in God
- pp. 101-103
- Chapter 20. That God Is Not a Body
- pp. 106-116
- Chapter 21. That God Is His Essence
- pp. 116-117
- Chapter 23. That No Accident Is Found in God
- pp. 121-123
- Chapter 25. That God Is Not in Some Genus
- pp. 126-127
- Chapter 28. On the Divine Perfection
- pp. 135-137
- Chapter 37. That God Is Good
- pp. 150-152
- Chapter 38. That God is Goodness Itself
- pp. 152-153
- Chapter 39. That There Cannot Be Evil in God
- pp. 154-155
- Chapter 41. That God Is the Highest Good
- pp. 157-158
- Chapter 42. That God Is One
- pp. 158-164
- Chapter 43. That God Is Infinite
- pp. 165-170
- Chapter 44. That God Is Intelligent
- pp. 170-173
- Chapter 60. That God Is Truth
- pp. 204-205
- Chapter 61. That God Is the Purest Truth
- pp. 205-207
- Chapter 65. That God Knows Singulars
- pp. 213-217
- Chapter 69. That God Knows Infinite Things
- pp. 227-231
- Chapter 70. That God Knows Lowly Things
- pp. 231-234
- Chapter 71. That God Knows Evils
- pp. 235-239
- Chapter 72. That God Has Will
- pp. 239-242
- Chapter 88. That in God There Is Free Choice
- pp. 270-271
- Chapter 91. That in God There Is Love
- pp. 277-282
- Chapter 95. That God Cannot Will Evil
- pp. 290-291
- Chapter 97. That God Is Living
- pp. 294-295
- Chapter 98. That God Is His Life
- pp. 295-296
- Chapter 100. That God Is Blessed
- pp. 298-300
- Chapter 101. That God Is His Blessedness
- pp. 300-301
- Subject Index
- pp. 305-312
- Index of Proper Names
- pp. 313-320
Additional Information
Copyright
1955