Summa Contra Gentiles

Tradition:: Scholastic Christian
Author:: Thomas Aquinas
Form:: apologetic summa
Approx. date:: c. 1265 CE

Summa contra Gentiles — Aquinas's four-book demonstrative synthesis of the truths of faith for a mixed audience (c. 1259-1265). English: Joseph Rickaby's Of God and His Creatures (1905), a public-domain annotated, lightly-abridged translation, verbatim and quotable. Hosted per book; some chapters are condensed or omitted (see the per-book note). A complete numerus-granular text and the modern scholarly edition (aquinas.cc) are available for full coverage.

Source context· Greco-Christian stream · Greco-Latin cultural age

Stream: Greco-Christian
Cultural age: Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age)
Composed: c. 1265 CE

1Book I: Of God as He Is in Himself39,132 words
2Book II: God the Origin of Creatures48,567 words
3Book III: God the End of Creatures79,468 words
4Book IV: Of God in His Revelation43,691 words

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