Summa Contra Gentiles: Difference between revisions

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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.

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 '''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 some of you that went to Catholic schools may be familiar with.
+The other one is the [[Summa Theologica]], a work that people who attended Catholic schools may be familiar with.
+== External Links ==
-The Summa Theologica is online at http://www.newadvent.org/summa ... to my knowledge, there isn't an online copy of SCG.
+* [http://www.newadvent.org/summa E-text of the Summa Theologica]
+* [http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/gc.htm E-text of the Summa Contra Gentiles] (translated version with some abridgement)
-[[Thomas 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 [http://www.newadvent.org/summa/304001.htm Just War and Tournaments] 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.
-Anton de Stoc 28/10/03