Friday, June 24, 2011

Summa Contra Gentiles

Chapter headings from this work by Thomas Aquinas,
written 1258-1264. Thomas was a Dominican living in 1225-1274.

BOOK I:  GOD


Chapter 1
The office of the wise man.
Chapter 2

The aurthor's intention in the present works.
The pursuit of wisdom.  Natural wisdom.
Chapter 3.
On the way in which Divine truth is to be made known.
Chapter 4.
That the truth about God to which the natural reason reaches is fittingly to men for belief.
Chapter 5
That the truths the human reason is not able to investigate are fittingly proposed to men for belief.  Truths that exceed the reason.
Chapter 6

That to give assent to the truths of faith is not foolishness even though they are above reason.