C download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Actus essendi homo unius libri principle of double effect view on the sacraments. Indeed, countless people from many centuries have studied and learned from the summa. The manuscript consists of strips of parchment, of various shades of. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading summa contra gentiles. Hence, those with a passing inquiry or a serious question, an existential concern or a philosophical problem, can learn much from reading and studying st. Full text of the summa contra gentiles of saint thomas aquinas see other formats. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Thomas aquinas summa contra gentiles, book i, chapters 1 9. Publication date 19231929 topics catholic church, apologetics early works to 1800 publisher. The summa contra gentiles is in the unique position of a classic whereof the authors manuscript is still in great part extant. Summa contra gentiles kindle edition by aquinas, st.
Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Summa contra gentiles is less widely known and much less widely read than saint thomas aquinass later, longer summa theologiae c. Chapter 1 the connection between the following considerations and the preceding ones i meditated upon your works. Full text of the summa contra gentiles of saint thomas. Chapter 1 foreword lo, these things are only outlines of his ways. Philosophy in general philosophy is the love of wisdom. The summa contra gentiles of saint thomas aquinas by thomas, aquinas, saint, 1225. The more celebrated summa theologica was a later work. Wisdom in the unqualified sense is a systematic understanding of and ordering of the truth which is the origin of all truth, viz. Thomas aquinas summa contra gentiles book ii genius. Thomas aquinas the summa theologica translated by fathers of the english dominican province.
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