002: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book Two: Creation

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The Summa Contra Gentiles isn’t 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 on the precise moment when Christian thought had to be intellectually creative in an effort to master and assimilate the intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the Summa Aquinas works to save and purify the considered the Greeks and the Arabs in the higher light of Christian Revelation, confident that each one that had been rational in the ancient philosophers and their followers would develop into 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 fact that faith professes and reason isn’t 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 might be 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 deals with God’s freedom in creation, his power as writer of all things, and the nature of man, particularly the unity of soul and body within man. Book 1 of the Summa deals with God; Book 3, Providence; and Book 4, Salvation.
 
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