When was summa contra gentiles written

Thomas Aquinas is a Doctor of the church. He was an Italian Dominican friar and Roman Catholic priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism. Skip to content Due to labor and supply shortages, the publishing industry is experiencing delays in printing and fulfillment.

Book orders may take 2 to 3 weeks to be processed. In the Summa Aquinas works to save and purify the thought of the Greeks and the Arabs in the higher light of Christian Revelation, confident that all that had been rational in the ancient philosophers and their followers would become more rational within Christianity. This exposition and defense of divine truth has two main parts: the consideration of that truth that faith professes and reason investigates, and the consideration of the truth that faith professes and reason is not competent to investigate.

The exposition of truths accessible to natural reason occupies Aquinas in the first three books of the Summa. His method is to bring forward demonstrative and probable arguments, some of which are drawn from the philosophers, to convince the skeptic. Nel caso del giudaismo, egli riconosce la comune accettazione del Vecchio Testamento come scrittura divina; per l'Islam, invece, la condivisa a quel tempo tradizione aristotelica. Scritta in tono apologetico per spiegare e difendere la Fede cristiana contro gli infedeli, usa argomenti adattabili alle diverse circostanze del loro uso, confutando istanze eretiche o proposizioni dissenzienti.

It was probably written to aid missionaries in explaining the Christian religion to and defending it against dissenting points of doctrine in Islam and Judaism. To this end, Aquinas could rely on a substantial body of shared doctrine, especially tenets of monotheism, in the case of Judaism the shared acceptance of the Old Testament as scripture and in the case of Islam the at the time shared tradition of Aristotelian philosophy.

Instead of a mere elucidation of the length and breadth of Christian doctrine, Aquinas explains specific core articles of Christian belief.