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	Encyclopedia: Summa Contra Gentiles
		The Summa contra Gentiles (hereafter referred to as SCG) was written by St. Thomas Aquinas between 1258 and 1264.
		The SCG is usually classified as a theological synthesis along with his earlier Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and his well-known Summa Theologica, although there are significant differences in scope and intent between all three of these works.
		The Summa contra Gentiles was written by St. Thomas Aquinas during the years from 1258 to 1264.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Summa-Contra-Gentiles (1618 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Thomas Aquinas
		The "Opusculum contra errores Graecorum" refuted the errors of the Greeks on doctrines in dispute between them and the Roman Church, viz., the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son, the primacy of the Roman pontiff, the Holy Eucharist, and purgatory.
		The "Summa" is Christian doctrine in scientific form; it is human reason rendering its highest service in defence and explanation of the truths of the Christian religion.
		From the prologue to the "Summa" it is clear that St. Thomas was opposed to all that was superfluous and confusing in Scholastic studies.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14663b.htm (9682 words)

	Thomas Aquinas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1272 the provincial chapter at Florence empowered him to found a new studium generale at such place as he should choose, and the commands of the chief of his order and the request of King Charles brought him back to the professor's chair at Naples.
		In 1319, the Catholic Church began investigations preliminary to Aquinas's canonization; on July 18, 1323, he was pronounced a saint by Pope John XXII at Avignon; and in 1567 Pius V ranked the festival of St Thomas with those of the four great Latin fathers, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Gregory.
		At the Council of Trent only two books were placed on the Altar, the Bible and St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Aquinas (1969 words)

	Psychohistory: St. Thomas Aquinas
		His most famous works are the "Summa Contra Gentiles," or the summation of learning, where he thinks through the wisdom of the Greek world; and the "Summa Theologiae," which represents his mature views with a heavy emphasis on moral theology.
		The translation of the title means the "Summary Against the Gentiles." It is written for "nonbelievers who are philosophically skilled and unimpressed by a call to believe and whose rationalism prevents an acceptance of revelation" (Watson and Evans, 1991, p.130).
		In the Summa, he states that "the knowledge that we arrive at from the evidence of our senses is not enough to know the essence of God, but what we sense does come from God and this permits us to know that He exists" (Aquinas, 1266, First Part, Q.12).
	www.psyking.net /id46.htm (2405 words)

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		Thomas is not concerned in the Contra Gentiles to gloss the obscurities of Scripture, except incidentally." The inadequacy of this characterization, especially with regard to the fourth book, will become clear from what follows in the text.
		This is obvious in the first three books of the contra Gentiles in which Thomas discusses a whole range of issues that Hilary leaves either wholly or partly untreated--God and the creation, the providence of God--and Thomas does so through the judicious use of philosophy ('philosophy,' of course, as guided by correct Christian faith).
		One of the things that is most striking in the opening chapters of the contra Gentiles is Thomas's keen awareness of the immensity and the difficulty of the tasks before him to proclaim and to defend the truth.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1994/944aWawr.htm (5188 words)

	Summa contra Gentiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That work was written for a Christian audience in mind while the Summa Contra Gentiles was written for the gentiles or the unbelievers.
		The first book of Summa Contra Gentiles deals with Aquinas' natural theology, and to that end he has three major themes.
		These are attributes which are commonly applied to the Christian god such as he is wise, he is merciful, and he is just.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/summa_contra_gentiles (333 words)

	Thomas Aquinas : Immaculata Publishing Radio Weblog
		Summa Contra Gentiles Bk 1 Ch 58 p 125 Again.
		A composing and dividing intellect judges of various things by various compositions: because the composition of the intellect does not go beyond the limits of composition: wherefore the intellect does not judge that a triangle is a figure by the same composition whereby it judges that man is an animal.
		This chapter in the Summa Contra Gentiles (SCG) is titled: 'THAT GOD DOES NOT UNDERSTAND BY COMPOSITION AND DIVISION.' God does not understand himself by composition and division.
	radio.weblogs.com /0144108/categories/thomasAquinas/2005/03/29.html (684 words)

	Search Tuna Report for Thomas Aquinas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Home Because the doctor of Catholic truth ought not only to teach the...
		The Summa contra gentiles and the ST were published in the last decade of the nineteenth century (with the commentaries of Silvester Ferrariensis and Thomas de Vio, Cardinal Cajetan, respectively)....
		Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways Two of his most famous works, the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles, are the finest examples of his work on Christian philosophy....
	www.searchtuna.net /ftlive/849.html (3934 words)

	APPENDIX
		The Summa Contra Gentiles, which will serve as the chief source of this study, is quite simply a handbook of theology.
		Indeed, in analyzing certain passages of the Summa, the philosopher or theologian, writing in his or her own field, could well be justified in completely prescinding from the content of the other science.
		Contemplation in the thirty-seventh chapter of the Summa Contra Gentiles was declared to be the fulfillment of the inner natural tendency of human nature.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series01/I-12/appendix.htm (21016 words)

	APPENDIX II
		It should be noted in the text of the Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate that Thomas’ consideration of the supernatural is limited to the question of the required means of attaining to vision, and does not pass judgment on the nature of the tendency of that end itself.
		It is precisely the approach adopted by Thomas in the Summa Contra Gentiles.
		Throughout his discussion of contemplation as man’s final end in the Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas often established contemplation as the only source of human fulfillment on the grounds that it is the only species of fulfillment which can be possessed solely by good men.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series02/IIA-10/appendix_ii.htm (12039 words)

	Thomas de Aquino, Summa contra Gentiles, lib. 1 cap. 14-28 [CTh1]
		14 Sed contra hunc processum plures sunt obiectiones.
		41 Hac etiam veritate redarguuntur gentiles ponentes ipsa elementa mundi et virtutes in eis existentes deos esse, ut solem, lunam, terram, aquam et huiusmodi, occasionem habentes ex praedictis philosophorum erroribus.
		Prima duo sunt contra rationem eius quod est per se necesse-esse: quia, si ab alio dependet, iam non est necesse esse.
	www.corpusthomisticum.org /scg1014.html (8503 words)

	Summa Theologiae, Saint Thomas Aquinas
		In his Summa Theologiae (1267-73) Saint Thomas Aquinas presented a synthesis of Aristotelian logic and Christian theology that was to become the basis of Roman Catholic doctrine on a wide variety of subjects.
		Thomas divided his work into three parts, the first dealing with the existence and nature of God and the universe he created, the second with human activity and ethics, and the third with Christ and the sacraments.
		Summa Theologica has been republished frequently in Latin and vernacular editions.
	www.mb-soft.com /believe/txn/summa.htm (1232 words)

	Saint Thomas Aquinas
		He finished the Summa contra gentiles, wrote various disputed questions and began the Summa theologiae.
		But his best known work is the Summa theologiae, which is most often cited when Thomas's position on this or that is sought.
		This analysis has not gotten the attention it deserves: the implication is that it is self-evident that there is an ultimate end which is why denials of it must flounder in incoherence.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/aquinas (11428 words)

	Amazon.com: Creation (Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 2): Books
		Summa Contra Gentiles: Salvation (Summa Contra Gentiles) by Aquinas, Saint Thomas
		Thomas's part in these controversies are the heart of this, the second volume of "Summa Contra Gentiles".
		Much of "Summa Contra Gentiles: Creation" is devoted to establishing this doctrine against competing doctrines of Plato, Alexander, Avicenna, and Averroes, among others.
	www.jalvo.us /buy-04806424988180881420 (1665 words)

	Thomas de Aquino, Summa contra Gentiles, lib. 3 cap. 111-163 [CTh1]
		Existentibus autem pluribus substantiis intellectualibus ordinatis, illi tantum debetur latriae cultus quae summum locum in eis tenet, ut ostensum est contra aliam positionem.
		Est igitur contra naturalem instinctum speciei humanae quod mulier a viro separetur.
		Facit autem contra hoc ratio prima: nam sicut libertas utendi femina ad libitum a mare tollitur si femina habeat alium, ita et eadem libertas a femina tollitur si mas habeat plures.
	www.corpusthomisticum.org /scg3111.html (10241 words)

	Thomas Aquinas [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the second division were: In quatitor sententiarum libros, of his first Paris sojourn; Questiones disputatce, written at Paris and Rome; Questiones quodlibetales duodecini; Summa catholicce fidei contra gentiles (1261-C,4); and the Summa theologioe.
		The greatest work of Thomas was the Summa and it is the fullest presentation of his views.
		The first part of the Summa is summed up in the thought that God governs the world as the universal first cause.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/a/aquinas.htm (3032 words)

	Summa Contra Gentiles
		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 than 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 which faith professes and reason investigates, and the consideration of the truth which faith professes and reason is not competent to investigate.
		His method is to bring forward demonstrative and probable arguments, some of which are drawn from the philosophers to convince skeptics.
	www.christnotes.org /-/_summa-contra-gentiles_0268016763.asp (217 words)

	Summa Contra Gentiles
		In the spring of 1256, Aquinas was incepted as a master of theology, and was regent master in theology at Paris until 1259.
		The Summa contra Gentiles shows Aquinas putting forward important arguments in favor of the Christian faith.
		The Summa contra Gentiles is a profoundly significant work in the history of philosophy.
	courseweb.stthomas.edu /medieval/aquinas/1.1/contragentiles.htm (371 words)

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		Book III of the Sum ma Contra Gentiles sets forth a comprehensive vision of moral order embracing God and the universe as well as humankind, and elaborates that vision with logical consistency and precision of detail.
		Thus in Book III of the Summa Contra Gentiles, biblical faith is informed and rendered intellectually incisive by a raid upon, a selective appropriation of, the rich wealth of wisdom of pagans such as Plato and Aristotle.
		Contra impugnantes Dei cultum et religionem 8 was the work of a young professor who had arrived only recently in his academic position, a self-conscious work adhering strictly to proper academic style.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1994/942aPort.htm (6071 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Aquinas on Unnatural Sex
		Because of the formidable extent of his works, it is often his two great summas to which we turn to find out what he thought.
		The summas were consciously written as compendia, and Aquinas addressed a number of theoretical issues in smaller subject specific treatises.
		The summas [the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles] are, however, useful.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/aquinas-homo.html (1659 words)

	Stephen Loughlin's Home Page - St. Thomas Aquinas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From September of that same year to September of 1265, Aquinas was at Orvieto as a lector, where he completed the Summa contra gentiles.
		After a time at Rome in 1265 and Viterbo in 1267 (his great work, the Summa theologiae was begun in 1266), he took up his second Parisian regency from January of 1269 to 1272.
		Here is the ever useful "Companion to the Summa" by Father Walter Farrell.
	faculty.niagara.edu /loughlin (945 words)

	Thomas Aquias, Summa contra gentiles
		13-1, dicitur contra quosdam: Ex his quae videntur bona, scilicet creaturis, quae sunt bona per quandam participationem, non potuerunt intelligere eum qui est, scilicet vere bonus, immo ipsa bonitas, ut in Primo ostensum est.
		Contra quos dicitur Iob 22-17: Quasi nihil possit facere omnipotens, aestimabant eum; et Sap.
		Homo, qui per fidem in Deum ducitur sicut in ultimum finem, ex hoc quod ignorat naturas rerum, et per consequens gradum sui ordinis in universo, aliquibus creaturis se putat esse subiectum quibus superior est: ut patet in illis qui voluntates hominum astris supponunt, contra quos dicitur Ierem.
	www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp /~skawazoe/text/thomas/scg/2_1-5.html (1619 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		Wherefore, since wherever there is distinction of sex, the active principle is male and the passive is female; the order of nature demands that for the purpose of generation there should be concurrence of male and female.
		Without a medium--in the work of nutrition, in which flesh generates flesh: with a medium--in the act of generation, because the semen of the animal or plant derives a certain active force from the soul of the generator, just as the instrument derives a certain motive power from the principal agent.
		In which spirit, moreover, there is a certain heat derived from the power of the heavenly bodies, by virtue of which the inferior bodies also act towards the production of the species as stated above (115, 3, ad 2).
	www.womenpriests.org /theology/aqui_wom.asp (1179 words)

	Amazon.ca: Summa Contra Gentiles, Book One: God: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God" is St. Thomas Aquinas' work in which he proclaims his philosophy of God.
		Depending on the reader's preparation, "Summa Contra Gentiles: God" is either completely impenetrable or one of the easier philosophical works to understand.
		The possibility of substances which do not ultimately derive from prime matter is an important question (perhaps the important question) of Summa Contra Gentiles.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/026801678X (1906 words)

	Of God and His Creatures (ii) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He wrote the Summa contra Gentiles in Italy, under the pontificate of Urban IV (1261-1264), at the request of St Raymund of Pennafort.
		Though the Summa contra viiiGentiles was written in Italy, there is reason to believe that the substance of it was got together during the Saint’s second residence at Paris, and formed the staple of his lectures in the University.
		The Summa contra Gentiles is in the unique position of a classic whereof the author’s manuscript is still in great part extant.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/aquinas/gentiles.ii.html (734 words)

	Summa Contra Gentiles: Salvation (Summa Contra Gentiles) - Cookie Nest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Summa Contra Gentiles: Salvation (Summa Contra Gentiles) Reviews
		Because of this, one of the best ways to comprehend "Summa Contra Gentiles" is through consideration of its structure.
		At the highest level, it consists of 4 books, with the third book in two parts, on account of its length.
	store.cookienest.com /related/summa-contra-gentiles-salvation-summa-contra-gentiles-id0268016844.php (159 words)

	Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica on Heresy and Heretics
		His main works were Summa contra Gentiles and Summa Theologiae.
		He was canonized as a Catholic saint in 1323, proclaimed a doctor of theology in 1567, and named patron of Catholic schools and education on January 28, 1880.
		Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
	www.aloha.net /~mikesch/aquinas.htm (798 words)

	Anglican Theological Review: Metaphysics of Theism: Aquina's Natural Theology in Summa contra gentiles I
		Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa contra gentiles I. By Norman Kretzmann.
		The principal protagonist is Aquinas, of course, with the author serving as drama critic of his performance as a natural theologian in one of his own prose works: the Summa contra gentiles, now rendered in English by its other title: On the Truth of the Catholic Faith.
		The Summa Theologiae offers a clear example of the disputational form of oral teaching, but Norman Kretzmann chose the first three books of the other Summa for its attempt to present the truths of faith without explicit recourse to premises gleaned from revelation, though these effectively guided the entire enterprise.
	www.24hourscholar.com /p/articles/mi_qa3818/is_199904/ai_n8849391 (819 words)

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