Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas

By Aquinas, Thomas, Saint

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Title:	Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas
Author:	Aquinas, Thomas, Saint
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Excerpt: The Christian Church possesses in its literature an abundant and incomparable treasure. But it is an inheritance that must be reclaimed by each generation. The Library Of Christian Classics is designed to present in the English language, and in twenty-six volumes of convenient size, a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises written prior to the end of the sixteenth century. The practice of giving circulation to writings selected for superior worth or special interest was adopted at the beginning of Christian history. The canonical Scriptures were themselves a selection from a much wider literature. In the Patristic era there began to appear a class of works of compilation (often designed for ready reference in controversy) of the opinions of well-reputed predecessors, and in the Middle Ages many such works were produced. These medieval anthologies actually preserve some noteworthy materials from works otherwise lost.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 Miscellaneous Prefatory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3 General Editor?s Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6 Original Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 7 General Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 19 Part I. Questions 1?4; 20?23. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 28 Q. 1: What Sacred Doctrine Is, and What It Concerns. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 28 p. 28 Art. 1: Whether Another Doctrine is Necessary, besides the Philosophical Sciences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art. 2: Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 29 Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Single Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 30 Whether Sacred Doctrine is a Practical Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 31 Whether Sacred Doctrine is Nobler than other Sciences. . . . . . . . . . p. 32 Whether Sacred Doctrine is Wisdom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33 Art. 7: Whether God is the Subject of This Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34 Whether Sacred Doctrine Proceeds by Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35 Whether Sacred Doctrine should Use Metaphors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 36 p. 38 Art. 10: Whether One Passage of Sacred Scripture may have Several Interpretations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Existence of God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 39 Art. 1: Whether it is Self-Evident that God Exists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 39 Article 2: Whether God?s Existence can be Demonstrated. . . . . . . . . p. 41 Art. 3: Whether God Exists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 42 Q. 3: Of the Simple Nature of God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 44 Art. 1: Whether God is a Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 45 Art. 2: Whether there is Composition of Form and Matter in God. . . . . p. 46 Whether God is the Same as his Essence, or Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 47 Art. 4: Whether Essence and Existence are the Same in God. . . . . . . p. 49 Whether God Belongs to a Genus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 50 Whether there is any Accident in God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 51 Whether God is Altogether Simple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 52 Art. 8: Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things. . . . . p. 53 Q. 4: The Perfection of God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 55 Art. 1: Whether God is Perfect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 55