Sentences with phrase «contra gentiles»
His Summa Contra Gentiles was designed to equip missionaries in their arguments with Moslems, the major body of non-Christians with whom the Catholics of the period were in contact.
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His monumental achievement, in such epic works as the Summa Contra Gentiles and the Summa Theologiae, was to marry the wisdom of a millennium of Christian philosophy and theology to the «new philosophy» of Aristotle that had been rediscovered in Europe (largely through the mediation of Arabic philosophers) in the early thirteenth century.
God can, therefore, have no composition» (in Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God, trans.
[35] «Summa contra Gentiles II, XIX, p. 29; cf. II, XXV, p. 44: «Potentiality of being is in those things only which have matter subject to contrariety.»
Aquinas himself wrote the Summa Contra Gentiles precisely to assist the brothers» preaching to Muslims.
(Summa Contra Gentiles, II, 89)
St. Thomas Aquinas devoted an entire chapter (Book 3, chapter 74) of his Summa Contra Gentiles to arguing this.
Indeed, the Common Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, sets forth in both the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles arguments in support of the death penalty that are subtle and leave much room for the exercise of prudence by lawmakers.
Therefore, God wishes things to be multiplied, because He wills and loves His essence and perfection» (Summa Contra Gentiles I, 25; as quoted in William T. Jones.