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Summa Contra Gentiles is one of the two great works of Saint [[Thomas Aquinas]], the greatest of the Scholastics. |
'''Summa Contra Gentiles''' is one of the two great works of Saint [[Thomas Aquinas]], the greatest of the [[Scholastics]]. |
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The other one is the Summa Theologica |
The other one is the [[Summa Theologica]], a work that people who attended Catholic schools may be familiar with. |
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== External Links == |
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The Summa is online at www.newadvent.org/summa ... to my knowledge, there isn't an online copy of SCG. |
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* [http://www.newadvent.org/summa E-text of the Summa Theologica] |
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* [http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc.htm E-text of the Summa Contra Gentiles] (translated version with some abridgement) |
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Aquinas was - and in my opinion still is - the pre-eminent Catholic theologian. If you've got a persona that would even be vaguely interested in such things, a brief look at the Summa on topics like Just War and Tournaments (at http://www.newadvent.org/summa/304001.htm) is probably in order. |
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Anyone interested in [[Knight]]hood (or for that matter, any of the [[Peer]]ages) could in my view do worse than have a look through the Second Part of the Second Part of the Summa, and see what Aquinas had to say about various virtues and vices. |
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Anton de Stoc 28/10/03 |
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Latest revision as of 08:49, 10 November 2007
Summa Contra Gentiles is one of the two great works of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the Scholastics.
The other one is the Summa Theologica, a work that people who attended Catholic schools may be familiar with.
External Links
- E-text of the Summa Theologica
- E-text of the Summa Contra Gentiles (translated version with some abridgement)
