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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. 9-14
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  1. General Introduction
  2. pp. 15-44
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  1. Summa Contra Gentiles, Book One: God
  2. pp. 45-56
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  1. On the Truth of the Catholic Faith
  1. Chapter 1. The Office of the Wise Man
  2. pp. 57-61
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  1. Chapter 2. The Author's Intention in the Present Work
  2. pp. 61-63
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  1. Chapter 3. On the Way in Which Divine Truth Is to Be Made Known
  2. pp. 63-66
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  1. Chapter 4. That the Truth about God to which the Natural Reason Reaches is Fittingly Proposed to Men for Belief
  2. pp. 66-68
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  1. Chapter 5. That the Truths the Human Reason Is Not Able to Investigate Are Fittingly Proposed to Men for Belief
  2. pp. 69-71
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  1. Chapter 6. That to Give Assent to the Truths of Faith Is Not Foolishness Even Though They Are Above Reason
  2. pp. 71-74
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  1. Chapter 7. That the Truth of Reason Is Not Opposed to the Truth of the Christian Faith
  2. pp. 74-75
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  1. Chapter 8. How the Human reason is Related to the Truth of Faith
  2. pp. 75-76
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  1. Chapter 9. The Order and Manner of Procedure in the Present Work
  2. pp. 77-78
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  1. Chapter 10. The Opinion of Those Who Say That the Existence of God, Being Self-Evident, Cannot Be Demonstrated
  2. pp. 79-80
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  1. Chapter 11. A Refutation of the Abovementioned Opinion and a Solution of the Arguments
  2. pp. 81-83
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  1. Chapter 12. The Opinion of Those Who Say That the Existence of God Cannot Be Demonstrated But Is Held by Faith Alone
  2. pp. 83-85
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  1. Chapter 13. Arguments in Proof of the Existence of God
  2. pp. 85-96
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  1. Chapter 14. That to Know God We Must Use the Way of Remotion
  2. pp. 96-97
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  1. Chapter 15. That God Is Eternal
  2. pp. 98-99
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  1. Chapter 16. That There Is No Passive Potency In God
  2. pp. 100-101
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  1. Chapter 17. That There Is No Matter in God
  2. pp. 101-103
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  1. Chapter 18. That There Is No Composition in God
  2. pp. 103-104
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  1. Chapter 19. That in God There Is Nothing Violent or Unnatural
  2. pp. 105-106
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  1. Chapter 20. That God Is Not a Body
  2. pp. 106-116
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  1. Chapter 21. That God Is His Essence
  2. pp. 116-117
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  1. Chapter 22. That in God Being and Essence Are the Same
  2. pp. 118-121
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  1. Chapter 23. That No Accident Is Found in God
  2. pp. 121-123
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  1. Chapter 24. That the Divine Being Cannot Be Determined by the Addition of Some Substantial Difference
  2. pp. 124-125
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  1. Chapter 25. That God Is Not in Some Genus
  2. pp. 126-127
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  1. Chapter 26. That God Is Not the Formal Being of All Things
  2. pp. 128-132
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  1. Chapter 27. That God Is Not the Form of Any Body
  2. pp. 133-134
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  1. Chapter 28. On the Divine Perfection
  2. pp. 135-137
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  1. Chapter 29. On the Likeness of Creatures to God
  2. pp. 138-139
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  1. Chapter 30. The Names That Can Be Predicted of God
  2. pp. 139-141
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  1. Chapter 31. That the Divine Perfection and the Plurality of Divine Names are Not Opposed to the Divine Simplicity
  2. pp. 141-142
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  1. Chapter 32. That Nothing Is Predicated Univocally of God and Other Things
  2. pp. 143-145
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  1. Chapter 33. That Not All Names Are Said of God and Creatures in a Purely Equivocal Way
  2. pp. 145-146
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  1. Chapter 34. That Names Said of God and Creatures Are Said Analogically
  2. pp. 147-148
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  1. Chapter 35. That Many Names Said of God Are Not Synonyms
  2. p. 149
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  1. Chapter 36. How Our Intellect Forms a Proposition About God
  2. p. 150
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  1. Chapter 37. That God Is Good
  2. pp. 150-152
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  1. Chapter 38. That God is Goodness Itself
  2. pp. 152-153
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  1. Chapter 39. That There Cannot Be Evil in God
  2. pp. 154-155
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  1. Chapter 40. That God Is the Good of Every Good
  2. pp. 156-157
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  1. Chapter 41. That God Is the Highest Good
  2. pp. 157-158
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  1. Chapter 42. That God Is One
  2. pp. 158-164
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  1. Chapter 43. That God Is Infinite
  2. pp. 165-170
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  1. Chapter 44. That God Is Intelligent
  2. pp. 170-173
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  1. Chapter 45. That God's Act of Understanding is His Essence
  2. pp. 173-174
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  1. Chapter 46. That God Understands Through Nothing Other Than Through His Essence
  2. pp. 174-176
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  1. Chapter 47. That God Understands Himself Perfectly
  2. pp. 176-178
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  1. Chapter 48. That Primarily and Essentially God Knows Only Himself
  2. pp. 178-180
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  1. Chapter 49. That God Understands Things Other Than Himself
  2. pp. 180-181
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  1. Chapter 50. That God Has a Proper Knowledge of All Things
  2. pp. 181-185
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  1. Chapter 51-52. Arguments Inquiring How a Multitude of Intellectual Objects Is in the Divine Intellect
  2. pp. 185-187
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  1. Chapter 53. The Solution of the Above Difficulty
  2. pp. 187-189
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  1. Chapter 54. How the Divine Essence, Being One and Simple, Is the Proper Likeness of All Intelligible Objects
  2. pp. 189-192
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  1. Chapter 55. That God Understands All Things Together
  2. pp. 192-194
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  1. Chapter 56. That God's Knowledge Is Not Habitual
  2. pp. 194-196
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  1. Chapter 57. That God's Knowledge Is Not Discursive
  2. pp. 196-199
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  1. Chapter 58. That God Does Not Understand By Composing and Dividing
  2. pp. 199-201
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  1. Chapter 59. That the Truth of Enunciables is Not Excluded from God
  2. pp. 201-203
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  1. Chapter 60. That God Is Truth
  2. pp. 204-205
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  1. Chapter 61. That God Is the Purest Truth
  2. pp. 205-207
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  1. Chapter 62. That the Divine Truth Is the First and Highest Truth
  2. pp. 207-208
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  1. Chapter 63. The Arguments of Those Who Wish to Take Away the Knowledge of Singulars from God
  2. pp. 209-212
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  1. Chapter 64. The order of What Is to Be Said on the Divine Knowledge
  2. p. 212
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  1. Chapter 65. That God Knows Singulars
  2. pp. 213-217
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  1. Chapter 66. That God Knows the Things That Are Not
  2. pp. 217-220
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  1. Chapter 67. That God Knows Future Contingent Singulars
  2. pp. 221-225
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  1. Chapter 68. That God Knows the Motions of the Will
  2. pp. 225-227
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  1. Chapter 69. That God Knows Infinite Things
  2. pp. 227-231
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  1. Chapter 70. That God Knows Lowly Things
  2. pp. 231-234
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  1. Chapter 71. That God Knows Evils
  2. pp. 235-239
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  1. Chapter 72. That God Has Will
  2. pp. 239-242
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  1. Chapter 73. That the Will of God Is His Essence
  2. pp. 242-243
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  1. Chapter 74. That the Principal Object of the Divine Will Is The Divine Essence
  2. pp. 244-245
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  1. Chapter 75. That in Willing Himself God Also Wills Other Things
  2. pp. 245-247
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  1. Chapter 76. That God Wills Himself and Other Things by One Act of Will
  2. pp. 247-249
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  1. Chapter 77. That the Multitude of the Objects of the Will Is Not Opposed to the Divine Simplicity
  2. pp. 250-251
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  1. Chapter 78. That the Divine Will Extends to Singular Goods
  2. pp. 251-253
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  1. Chapter 79. That God Wills Even the Things That Are Not Yet
  2. pp. 253-255
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  1. Chapter 80. That His Own Being and His Own Goodness God Wills Necessarily
  2. pp. 255-257
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  1. Chapter 81. That God Does Not Will Other Things in a Necessary Way
  2. pp. 257-259
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  1. Chapter 82. Arguments Leading to Awkward Consequences If God Does Not Necessarily Will Things Other Than Himself
  2. pp. 260-263
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  1. Chapter 83. That God Wills Something Other Than Himself with the Necessity of Supposition
  2. pp. 263-264
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  1. Chapter 84. That the Will of God Is Not of What Is in Itself Impossible
  2. pp. 264-265
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  1. Chapter 85. That the Divine Will Does Not Remove Contingency from Things, Nor Does It Impose Absolute Necessity on Them
  2. pp. 266-267
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  1. Chapter 86. That a Reason Can Be Assigned to the Divine Will
  2. pp. 267-269
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  1. Chapter 88. That Nothing Can Be the Cause of the Divine Will
  2. pp. 269-270
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  1. Chapter 88. That in God There Is Free Choice
  2. pp. 270-271
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  1. Chapter 89. That in God There Are Not the Passions of the Appetites
  2. pp. 271-274
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  1. Chapter 90. That in God There Are Delight and Joy, But They Are Not Opposed to the Divine Perfection
  2. pp. 275-277
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  1. Chapter 91. That in God There Is Love
  2. pp. 277-282
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  1. Chapter 92. How Virtues May Be Held to Be in God
  2. pp. 282-285
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  1. Chapter 93. That in God There Are the Moral Virtues that Deal with Actions
  2. pp. 285-289
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  1. Chapter 94. That in God There Are Contemplative Virtues
  2. pp. 289-290
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  1. Chapter 95. That God Cannot Will Evil
  2. pp. 290-291
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  1. Chapter 96. That God Hates Nothing, and the Hatred of No Thing Befits Him
  2. pp. 292-294
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  1. Chapter 97. That God Is Living
  2. pp. 294-295
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  1. Chapter 98. That God Is His Life
  2. pp. 295-296
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  1. Chapter 99. That the Life of God Is Everlasting
  2. pp. 296-297
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  1. Chapter 100. That God Is Blessed
  2. pp. 298-300
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  1. Chapter 101. That God Is His Blessedness
  2. pp. 300-301
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  1. Chapter 102. That the Perfect and Unique Blessedness of God Excels Every Other Blessedness
  2. pp. 301-304
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  1. Subject Index
  2. pp. 305-312
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  1. Index of Proper Names
  2. pp. 313-320
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