Summa Theologiae: Volume 2, Existence and Nature of God: 1a. 2-11

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M10 26 - 268 pages
The Summa Theologiae ranks among the greatest documents of the Christian Church, and is a landmark of medieval western thought. It provides the framework for Catholic studies in systematic theology and for a classical Christian philosophy, and is regularly consulted by scholars of all faiths and none, across a range of academic disciplines. This paperback reissue of the classic Latin/English edition first published by the English Dominicans in the 1960s and 1970s, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, has been undertaken in response to regular requests from readers and librarians around the world for the entire series of 61 volumes to be made available again. The original text is unchanged, except for the correction of a small number of typographical errors.

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Contents

QUESTION 2 WHETHER THERE IS A
5
QUESTION 3 GODS SIMPLENESS
19
QUESTION 4 GODS PERFECTION
49
QUESTION 5 THE GENERAL NOTION OF GOOD
61
Article 5 is goodness a matter of being in condition form
75
QUESTION 6 THE GOODNESS OF
83
Article 4 does Gods goodness make everything good?
91
Article 2 is anything other than God unlimited in being?
97
Logical Preliminaries
174
Existence and Causality
181
The Meaning of the Word God
186
Additional Appendices by Thomas Gilby O P 5 The Five Ways
188
The First
191
The Second
196
The Third
201
The Fourth
204

Article 4 can there exist an unlimited number of things?
105
QUESTION 8 GODS EXISTENCE IN THINGS
111
Article 3 is God everywhere in substance power and presence?
117
QUESTION 9 GODS UNCHANGEABLENESS
127
QUESTION IO THE ETERNITY OF
135
Article 3 does eternity belong to God alone?
141
Article 5 the difference between the aon and time
147
QUESTION II THE ONENESS OF GOD 157 161 Article 1 does being one add anything to existing?
157
Article 2
165
Article 4 is he supremely one?
167
Appendices 1 The Opening Question
171
The Fifth
206
The Single Causal Origin
209
Simplicity and Unity 1a 3
214
Perfection and Goodness 1a 46
221
Transcendence 1a
223
Immanence Ia
225
Eternity 1a 9
227
Glossary
230
Index
235
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