Summa Contra Gentiles

Tradition:: Scholastic Christian
Author:: Thomas Aquinas
Form:: scholastic philosophical summa
Approx. date:: c. 1262 CE

Aquinas's four-book Summa Contra Gentiles (c. 1259-1265). Books I-III argue from philosophical reason; Book IV from revelation. English in Joseph Rickaby SJ's 1905 abridgement Of God and His Creatures (London) via CCEL; Latin from the Vivès edition (Paris 1871-1880).

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

Stream: Greco-Christian
Cultural age: Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age)
Composed: c. 1262 CE

1Liber I
Rational demonstration of God's existence and the nature of divine truth accessible to natural reason
104,272 words
2Liber II
Creation of the world and the nature of corporeal substance under divine causality
149,364 words
3Liber III174,159 words
4Liber IV114,963 words

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