Exhaustive and explicit, Aquinas’ Summa Contra Gentiles, is a brilliant synthesis of faith and reason which has decisively and permanently impacted philosophy and religion since the 13th century. Proving that God exists, Aquinas writing from an apologetic viewpoint denies the claims of the Islam of his day. All three sections, including 38 tracts, 631 questions, about 3000 articles, 10,000 objections and their answers, reveal God’s nature, His immutability, infinite, eternal character, and specifically His knowledge of future contingencies. God’s will, essence and the problem of evil are also discussed. Excellent!
Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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