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This Is Only a Sample. to Purchase the Ebook, Please Visit Our Website. SAINT SUMMA THOMAS CONTRA AQUINAS GENTILES BOOK ONE: GOD This is only a sample. To purchase the ebook, please visit our website. SAINT SUMMA THOMAS CONTRA AQUINAS GENTILES BOOK ONE: GOD Translated, University with an Introduction of and Notes, Notre Dame Press by NotreDame ANTON C. PEGIS, London ER.S.C. Copyright © 1955 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. First published in 1955 by Hanover House as On the Truth of the Catholic Faith First paperback edition 1955 by Image Books Published by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc. University of Notre Dame Press edition 1975 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 undpress.nd.edu Reprinted in 1978, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2014 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 1225?–1274. Summa contra gentiles. Reprint of the ed. published by Hanover House, Garden City, N.Y., under title: On the truth of the Catholic faith. Includes bibliographies. CONTENTS: book 1. God, translated, with an introd. and notes, by A. C. Pegis. —book 2. Creation, translated, with an introd. and notes, by J. F. Anderson. [etc.] 1. Apologetics—Middle Ages, 600–1500. I. Title. [BX1749.T4 1975] 239 75-19883 Summa Contra Gentiles, Book One: God ISBN 13: 978-0-268-01678-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 10: 0-268-01678-X (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 9780268045524 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. This e-Book was converted from the original source file by a third-party vendor. Readers who notice any formatting, textual, or readability issues are encouraged to contact the publisher at [email protected]. FOR MY CHILDREN The pursuit of wisdom especially joins man to God in friendship -SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS Contents. PAGE General Introduction I St. Thomas and his writings 1 5 u Aristotelianism and the occasion of the Summa Contra Gentiles 19 111 The plan of the Summa Contra Gentiles 26 SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES, BOOK ONE: GOD I The Christian God 4 5 11 The present translation 50 Bibliography 53 CHAPTER 1. The office of the wise man 59 2. The author's intention in the present work 61 3· On the way in which divine truth is to be made known 63 4· That the truth about God to which the natural reason reaches is fittingly proposed to men for belief 66 5· That the truths the human reason is not able to investigate are fittingly proposed to men for be- lief 69 6. That to give assent to the truths of faith is not foolishness even though they are above reason 71 9 10 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 7. That the truth of reason is not opposed to the truth of the Christian faith 74 8. How the human reason is related to the truth of faith 75 9· The order and manner of procedure in the pres- ent work 77 10. The opinion of those who say that the existence of God, being self-evident, cannot be demon- strated 79 11. A refutation of the abovementioned opinion and a solution of the arguments 81 12. The opinion of those who say that the exist­ ence of God cannot be demonstrated but is held by faith alone 83 1 3· Arguments in proof of the existence of God 8 5 14- That to know God we must use the way of re- motion 96 15. That God is eternal 98 16. That there is no passive potency in God 100 17. That there is no matter in God 101 18. That there is no composition in God 103 19. That in God there is nothing violent or un- natural 105 20. That God is not a body 106 21. That God is His essence 116 22. That in God being and essence are the same 118 23. That no accident is found in God 121 24. That the divine being cannot be determined by the addition of some substantial difference 124 25. That God is not in some genus 126 CONTENTS 11 CHAPTER PAGE 26. That God is not the formal being of all things 128 2 7. That God is not the form of any body 1 3 3 28. On the divine perfection 135 29. On the likeness of creatures to God 138 30. The names that can be predicated of God 1 39 31· That the divine perfection and the plurality of divine names are not opposed to the divine sim~ plicity 141 32. That nothing is predicated univocally of God and other things 143 33· That not all names are said of God and crea~ tures in a purely equivocal way 145 34· That names said of God and creatures are said analogically 14 7 35· That many names said of God are not synonyms 149 36. How our intellect forms a proposition about G~ 1~ 37· That God is good 150 38. That God is goodness itself 152 39· That there cannot be evil in God 154 40. That God is the good of every good 156 41. That God is the highest good 1 57 42. That God is one 158 43· That God is infinite 165 44· That God is intelligent 170 45· That God's act of understanding is His essence 173 46. That God understands through nothing other than through His essence 1 74 47· That God understands Himself perfectly 176 12 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 48. That primarily and essentially God knows only Himself 178 49· That God understands things other than Him- ~H 1~ 50. That God has a proper knowledge of all things 181 51-52. Arguments inquiring how a multitude of in- tellectual objects is in the divine intellect 18 5 53· The solution of the above difficulty 187 54· How the divine essence, being one and simple, is the proper likeness of all intelligible objects 189 55· That God understands all things together 192 56. That God's knowledge is not habitual 194 57· That God's knowledge is not discursive 196 58. That God does not understand by composing and dividing 199 59· That the truth of enunciables is not excluded from God 201 6o. That God is truth 204 61. That God is the purest truth 205 62. That the divine truth is the first and highest ~~ 2~ 63. The arguments of those who wish to take away the knowledge of singulars from God 209 64. The order of what is to be said on the divine knowledge 212 65. That God knows singulars 213 66. That God knows the things that are not 217 67. That God knows future contingent singulars 221 68. That God knows the motions of the will 22 5 69. That God knows infinite things 227 CONTENTS 13 CHAPTER PAGE 70. That God knows lowly things 231 71. That God knows evils 235 72. That God has will 239 73· That the will of God is His essence 242 74· That the principal object of the divine will is the divine essence 244 7 5. That in willing Himself God also wills other things 245 76. That God wills Himself and other things by one act of will 24 7 77· That the multitude of the objects of the will is not opposed to the divine simplicity 2 50 7S. That the divine will extends to singular goods 251 79· That God wills even the things that are not yet 2 53 So. That His own being and His own goodness God wills necessarily 2 55 S1. That God does not will other things in a neces- sary way 257 S2. Arguments leading to awkward consequences if God does not necessarily will things other than Himself 260 S3. That God wills something other than Himself with the necessity of supposition 263 S4. That the will of God is not of what is in itself impossible 264 S5. That the divine will does not remove contin­ gency from things, nor does it impose absolute necessity on them 266 S6. That a reason can be assigned to the divine will 267 S7. That nothing can be the cause of the divine ~ 2~ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE 88. That in God there is free choice 270 89. That in God there are not the passions of the appetites 271 90. That in God there are delight and joy, but they are not opposed to the divine perfection 275 91. That in God there is love 277 92. How virtues may be held to be in God 282 93· That in God there are the moral virtues that deal with actions 285 94· That in God there are contemplative virtues 289 95· That God cannot will evil 290 96. That God hates nothing, and the hatred of no thing befits Him 292 97. That God is living 294 98. That God is His life 29 5 99· That the life of God is everlasting 296 100. That God is blessed 298 101. That God is His blessedness 300 102. That the perfect and unique blessedness of God excels every other blessedness 301 Subject Index 30 5 Index of Proper Names 313 General Introduction. I. ST. THOMAS AND HIS WRITINGS St. Thomas Aquinas was born in Italy in the castle of Roccasecca, near Aquino, early in 1225. Until 1239 he re­ mained an oblate in the Benedictine Monastery of Monte Cassino where he had been entered by his parents in 1231. He studied the liberal arts at the newly established Uni­ versity of Naples, and in 1244 decided to become a Domini­ can. He set out for Paris, arriving there in the summer of 1245.
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