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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 the second part of a treatise on the hierarchy of creation, the divine providence over all things, and man's relation to God. Book 1 of the Summa deals with God; Book 2, Creation; and Book 4, Salvation.

Aquinas was Dominican regent master in theology at the University of Paris, where he presided over a series of questions - academic debates - on ethical topics. This volume offers translations of disputed questions and an introduction that explains how Aquinas's theory of virtue fits into his ethics as a whole.

This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English parallel text edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s), has been undertaken in response to requests from both philosophers and theologians.

This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English parallel text edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s), has been undertaken in response to requests from both philosophers and theologians.

Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.

In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series Robert Dyson has chosen texts by Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) that manifest the full range of his thinking. The lucid translations are supported by many features designed to assist the student reader, including brief biographies and a concise critical introduction.

This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English parallel text edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s), has been undertaken in response to requests from both philosophers and theologians.

This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English parallel text edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s), has been undertaken in response to requests from both philosophers and theologians.

This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English parallel text edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s), has been undertaken in response to requests from both philosophers and theologians.

This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English parallel text edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s), has been undertaken in response to requests from both philosophers and theologians.

This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English parallel text edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s), has been undertaken in response to requests from both philosophers and theologians.