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Summa Contra Gentiles
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Description for Summa Contra Gentiles
Paperback. Translator(s): Pegis, A. C. BIC Classification: DNF; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Book Two of the Summa Contra Gentiles series examines God's freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and the nature of man, particularly the unity of soul and body within man.
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 ... Read more
Book 1 of the Summa deals with God; Book 3, Providence; and Book 4, Salvation.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268016807
SKU
V9780268016807
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About Saint Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is a Doctor of the church. He was an Italian Dominican friar and Roman Catholic priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. Canonized in 1323 by Pope John XXII, Aquinas was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism.
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