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"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225¿1274), widely considered the Catholic Church¿s greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinas¿s masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume IV, Aquinas addresses: ¿ chastity and lust ¿ sobriety and humility ¿ pride ¿ prophecy and Rapture ¿ the passion of Christ ¿ Christ¿s resurrection ¿ the sacraments ¿ and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781602065598 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Cosimo Classics |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2013 |
| Pages: | 652 |
| Sales rank: | 819,542 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.31(d) |
Table of Contents
| Editor's note | xiii | |
| Preface: What the Summa is About | xvii | |
| Introduction: The Learning of Men and the Teaching of God | 1 | |
| Why we needed to be taught by God | 1 | |
| This teaching of God is a new science of God | 1 | |
| The language and style of God's teaching | 3 | |
| I | God | 7 |
| 1 | What God is Not | 9 |
| Is there a God? | 11 | |
| That there is a God needs proof | 11 | |
| There is a God | 12 | |
| God's simple perfection | 14 | |
| God is not, like creatures, made up of parts | 14 | |
| Nevertheless God's perfection is all-embracing | 16 | |
| What is goodness? | 18 | |
| God's goodness | 19 | |
| God exists without limit | 20 | |
| God is not limited in any way | 20 | |
| So God is present everywhere in everything | 22 | |
| God does not alter and is not in time | 23 | |
| There is only one God | 24 | |
| We can know God but not comprehend him | 26 | |
| Knowing God in the life to come | 26 | |
| Knowing God in this life | 29 | |
| We can talk about God but not define him | 30 | |
| Can words express what God is? | 30 | |
| Words expressing God as related to the world | 32 | |
| Names for God | 33 | |
| 2 | God's Life | 36 |
| God knows | 38 | |
| God is his own knowing | 38 | |
| God knows everything that exists or that can exist | 39 | |
| God knows individuals | 40 | |
| God knows the future | 41 | |
| God knows propositions | 43 | |
| God's ideas | 44 | |
| Truth and knowledge | 45 | |
| The possibility of falsehood | 47 | |
| God lives | 48 | |
| God loves | 50 | |
| God's will | 50 | |
| God is love | 53 | |
| God is just and merciful | 54 | |
| God plans | 55 | |
| God is prudent or provident | 55 | |
| Predestination | 57 | |
| God acts | 60 | |
| God's power | 60 | |
| God's happy state | 61 | |
| 3 | Father, Son and Holy Spirit | 63 |
| How we can conceive of distinct persons in God | 65 | |
| Coming forth in God | 65 | |
| Relatedness within God | 66 | |
| The meaning of person | 68 | |
| The three persons | 72 | |
| Father | 72 | |
| Son, Word and Image | 73 | |
| Holy Spirit, Love and Gift | 74 | |
| The grammar of the Trinity | 76 | |
| The sending of the persons of God | 79 | |
| 4 | Creation | 82 |
| God as creator | 83 | |
| God as source of the world | 83 | |
| Creation is God's way of causing | 85 | |
| Did the world begin? | 88 | |
| The variety and order of creation | 89 | |
| Good and bad | 91 | |
| Spirit and matter | 94 | |
| The world of pure spirits | 94 | |
| Knowledge among spirits | 96 | |
| Love and will among spirits | 99 | |
| The creation of the angels | 101 | |
| The seven days of material creation | 103 | |
| 5 | Man's Place in Creation | 105 |
| Human nature - embodied spirit | 108 | |
| What is man? | 108 | |
| Man's soul is immortal | 110 | |
| Embodied mind | 111 | |
| Each man has his own individual mind | 113 | |
| Each man has a single soul | 114 | |
| The human body | 116 | |
| Human abilities - bodily and spiritual | 118 | |
| Bodily life | 119 | |
| Our senses | 120 | |
| Mental ability | 121 | |
| Urges, inclinations and desires | 124 | |
| Sense-appetite | 125 | |
| Will | 126 | |
| Mind and will | 127 | |
| Emotion and will | 128 | |
| Free will | 128 | |
| How man knows | 129 | |
| Knowing material things | 129 | |
| Our dependence on our senses | 131 | |
| Abstraction of ideas | 132 | |
| The general and the particular | 134 | |
| The simple and the composite | 136 | |
| What don't we know? | 138 | |
| Knowing ourselves | 139 | |
| The soul after death | 140 | |
| The Genesis of man | 142 | |
| God formed man | 142 | |
| It is not good for man to be alone | 143 | |
| Let us make man after our own image | 143 | |
| God made man right | 145 | |
| Let him rule the fishes of the sea | 146 | |
| Death entered the world through sin | 147 | |
| Increase and multiply and fill the earth | 148 | |
| 6 | Running the World | 150 |
| God's role | 152 | |
| Holding everything in existence | 154 | |
| Directing the world to its goal | 155 | |
| Miracles | 156 | |
| The role of creatures | 157 | |
| Angels | 157 | |
| Devils | 158 | |
| Material things | 159 | |
| Fate | 159 | |
| Men | 161 | |
| II | Journeying to God | 165 |
| 7 | Human Life as a Journey to God | 167 |
| Human life has a goal | 171 | |
| Acting for goals | 171 | |
| The notion of an ultimate goal | 173 | |
| God is our ultimate goal | 174 | |
| Happiness is seeing God | 176 | |
| What happiness brings with it | 178 | |
| Happiness is possible | 181 | |
| Acting voluntarily | 182 | |
| Willing, enjoying and intending goals | 185 | |
| Choosing, accepting and employing means | 188 | |
| Actions controlled by reason | 191 | |
| What makes action good or bad? | 193 | |
| Good and bad willing | 196 | |
| Good and bad deeds | 199 | |
| Some terminology | 200 | |
| Feeling | 201 | |
| Loving and hating | 204 | |
| Desiring | 208 | |
| Feeling pleased or sad | 209 | |
| Feeling hopeful or despairing | 215 | |
| Feeling afraid or feeling bold | 216 | |
| Feeling angry | 217 | |
| 8 | Living Well and Living Badly | 220 |
| Dispositions | 224 | |
| What is a disposition? | 224 | |
| What sort of things need dispositions? | 226 | |
| How do dispositions arise? | 227 | |
| Varieties of disposition | 230 | |
| Virtue | 231 | |
| What is virtue? | 231 | |
| Mental virtues - speculative and practical | 234 | |
| Moral virtues | 236 | |
| The variety of moral virtues | 238 | |
| Ranking the virtues | 244 | |
| The gifts of the Holy Spirit | 247 | |
| The gospel blessings | 248 | |
| Sin and vice | 249 | |
| What is sin? | 249 | |
| Classification of sins | 251 | |
| Why we sin | 255 | |
| Sinning from ignorance | 257 | |
| Sinning from emotion | 259 | |
| Sinning from bad will | 260 | |
| Does God cause sin? | 261 | |
| Does the devil cause sin? | 262 | |
| Can sin be inherited? | 263 | |
| Sin's effects | 268 | |
| Sin's punishment | 271 | |
| Fatal sin | 273 | |
| 9 | Law and Grace | 276 |
| Law | 280 | |
| What is law? | 280 | |
| Types of law | 281 | |
| The effect of law | 283 | |
| The eternal law | 284 | |
| The law we have in us by nature | 286 | |
| Human law | 289 | |
| How flexible is human law? | 290 | |
| The Old Law | 294 | |
| Subdivisions of the Old Law | 296 | |
| Moral injunctions of the Old Law | 298 | |
| Ritual and judicial injunctions | 300 | |
| The New Law | 303 | |
| Grace | 307 | |
| Why we need God's grace | 307 | |
| What is grace? | 312 | |
| Sources of grace | 316 | |
| Grace works in us to set sinners right | 318 | |
| Grace works with us to earn heaven | 321 | |
| 10 | Living With God - Faith, Hope and Love | 325 |
| Faith | 328 | |
| What we believe | 328 | |
| The act of believing | 331 | |
| The disposition to believe - faith | 334 | |
| Knowing and understanding the faith | 337 | |
| Disbelief | 339 | |
| Heresy | 342 | |
| Apostasy | 343 | |
| Blasphemy | 344 | |
| Hope | 344 | |
| The virtue of hope | 344 | |
| Fear of God | 347 | |
| Despair and presumption | 348 | |
| Charity | 349 | |
| God's friendship | 349 | |
| Growing in love | 351 | |
| Whom do we love with charity? | 354 | |
| Joy and peace | 359 | |
| Compassion | 360 | |
| Doing good for people | 361 | |
| Giving alms | 362 | |
| Brotherly correction | 363 | |
| Hatred, apathy and envy | 364 | |
| Dissensions and war | 366 | |
| Setting (and following) bad example | 368 | |
| The commandments to love | 369 | |
| The gift of wisdom | 370 | |
| 11 | Living in the World - Moral Virtue | 372 |
| Prudence | 376 | |
| Function of prudence | 376 | |
| Analysis of prudence | 379 | |
| Imprudence | 381 | |
| Justice | 382 | |
| Doing the just thing | 382 | |
| Being just | 383 | |
| Distributive and commutative justice | 387 | |
| Injustice | 389 | |
| Component parts of justice | 398 | |
| Virtues allied to justice | 399 | |
| Religion | 400 | |
| Interior devotion and prayer | 401 | |
| External religious behaviour | 405 | |
| Too much religion | 409 | |
| Too little religion | 414 | |
| Loyalty, respect and obedience | 415 | |
| Debts of honour | 417 | |
| Equity | 420 | |
| The ten commandments | 421 | |
| Courage | 422 | |
| The virtue of courage | 422 | |
| Virtues allied to courage | 424 | |
| Moderation | 426 | |
| What is moderation? | 426 | |
| Moderation in food and drink | 428 | |
| Moderation in sex | 429 | |
| Virtues allied to moderation | 432 | |
| Mildness and clemency | 434 | |
| Modesty: humility, studiousness, decent behaviour | 436 | |
| 12 | Special Walks of Life | 442 |
| Charisms | 444 | |
| Prophecy | 444 | |
| Charisms related to prophecy | 449 | |
| Ways of life | 451 | |
| States of life | 453 | |
| The notion of a state of life | 453 | |
| Perfection in Christian life | 454 | |
| States of perfection | 456 | |
| The episcopal state | 457 | |
| The religious state | 460 | |
| III | The Road to God | 469 |
| 13 | Jesus Christ - God and Man | 471 |
| The incarnation | 474 | |
| Why did God become man? | 474 | |
| Two natures in one person | 477 | |
| Christ's grace | 484 | |
| Christ's own grace | 484 | |
| Christ's grace of headship | 487 | |
| Christ's humanity as God's perfect tool | 490 | |
| What did Christ know? | 490 | |
| The power and the weakness of Christ | 493 | |
| Rules for talking about the incarnation | 496 | |
| Christ's existence | 499 | |
| Christ's will | 500 | |
| Christ's activity | 502 | |
| Christ's relations to his Father and to us | 504 | |
| 14 | The Life of Christ | 511 |
| Christ's entry into the world | 513 | |
| His virgin mother | 513 | |
| He was conceived of the Holy Spirit | 516 | |
| Born of the virgin Mary | 518 | |
| Christ's life in this world | 519 | |
| He was baptized | 519 | |
| His public life | 520 | |
| His transfiguration | 523 | |
| Christ's departure from the world |