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The Summa contra Gentiles [a] is one of the best-known treatises by Thomas Aquinas, written as four books between 1259 and 1265. Whereas the Summa Theologiæ was written to explain the Christian faith to theology students, the Summa contra Gentiles is more apologetic in tone.
The Thomas Aquinas Dictionary is a collection of quotations by medieval philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas, indexed by keywords contained within the quotations. Most of the quotations are taken from the Summa Theologica, with additional material from the Summa contra Gentiles. The quotations are listed without additional commentary or ...
From Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 4: [1] since the spiritual remedies of salvation (as was said) have been given to men under sensible signs, it was suitable also to distinguish the remedies provided for the spiritual life after the likeness of bodily life.
Equivocation is the complete change in meaning of the descriptor and is an informal fallacy, for example when the word "bank" is applied to river banks and financial banks. Modern philosophers call it ambiguity. Further, the usage of "definition" that Aquinas gives is the genus of
Summa Theologica. Treatise on Law; Summa contra Gentiles; Contra Errores Graecorum; Commentaries on Aristotle; De regno, ad regem Cypri; De regimine Judaeorum; De aeternitate mundi, contra murmurantes; Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate; Catena aurea
The chapters of the Compendium are usually no longer than a few paragraphs, as Aquinas aimed at brevity rather than the thorough style of the Summa Theologica. Even if the Doctor's death is usually taken as the cause for its incompletion, the first part seems to have been composed as early as in the 1265-1267 time span, soon after finishing his ...
Fuller arguments are taken up in later sections of the Summa theologiae, and other publications. For example, in the Summa contra gentiles SCG I, 13, 30, he clarifies that his arguments do not assume or presuppose that there was a first moment in time. A commentator notes that Thomas does not think that God could be first in a temporal sense ...
Summa Theologica. Treatise on Law; Summa contra Gentiles; Contra Errores Graecorum; Commentaries on Aristotle; De regno, ad regem Cypri; De regimine Judaeorum; De aeternitate mundi, contra murmurantes; Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate; Catena aurea