The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary
of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a
creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics
composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be
intellectually creative in order to master and assimilate the
intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the Summa
Aquinas works to save and purify the thought of the Greeks and the
Arabs in the higher light of Christian Revelation, confident that
all that had been rational in the ancient philosophers and their
followers would become more rational within Christianity. This
exposition and defense of divine truth has two main parts: the
consideration of that truth that faith professes and reason
investigates, and the consideration of the truth that faith
professes and reason is not competent to investigate. The
exposition of truths accessible to natural reason occupies Aquinas
in the first three books of the Summa. His method is to bring
forward demonstrative and probable arguments, some of which are
drawn from the philosophers, to convince the skeptic. In the fourth
book of the Summa St. Thomas appeals to the authority of the Sacred
Scripture for those divine truths that surpass the capacity of
reason. The present volume studies God's existence, nature, and
substance, and especially his perfect actuality, the autonomy of
his knowledge, the independence of his will, the perfection of his
life, and the generosity of his love. Book 2 of the Summa deals
with Creation; Book 3, Providence; and Book 4, Salvation.
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