Thomas Aquinas's "Summa Contra Gentiles": a Mirror of Human Nature (Paperback)

The Summa contra gentiles is perhaps the most peculiar work of St. Thomas Aquinas, due to Thomas's decision to structure the work first according to what humans can say about God without revelation and then what humans can say about God once revelation is explicitly introduced. Such an approach to the human pursuit of the divine is otherwise unheard of in Thomas's own day, and this unusual structure has provided a fertile seedbed for a wide range of interpretations. Matthew Kostelecky's book shows the integral relationship between the conceptions of human nature and God operative throughout the Summa contra gentiles such that the text is always in a twofold movement, at once describing what humans can say about God while also reflecting human nature back on itself by delineating its limits and capabilities with respect to the possible human knowledge of God. As a result, the Summa contra gentiles is presented as a mirror of human nature as that nature is directed to its most noble object.

General

Imprint:	Peeters Publishers
Country of origin:	Belgium
Series:	Thomas Instituut Utrecht, v.14
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	M. Kostelecky
Dimensions:	239 x 160 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-90-429-2747-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
LSN:	90-429-2747-X
Barcode:	9789042927476

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