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Tables of Contents for Summa Contra Gentiles
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General Introduction
15
30
I St. Thomas and his writings
15
4
II Aristotelianism and the occasion of the Summa Contra Gentiles
19
7
III The plan of the Summa Contra Gentiles
26
19
SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES, BOOK ONE: GOD
45
8
I The Christian God
45
5
II The present translation
50
3
Bibliography
53
6
1. The office of the wise man
59
2
2. The author's intention in the present work
61
2
3. On the way in which divine truth is to be made known
63
3
4. That the truth about God to which the natural reason reaches is fittingly proposed to men for belief
66
3
5. That the truths the human reason is not able to investigate are fittingly proposed to men for belief
69
2
6. That to give assent to the truths of faith is not foolishness even though they are above reason
71
3
7. That the truth of reason is not opposed to the truth of the Christian faith
74
1
8. How the human reason is related to the truth of faith
75
2
9. The order and manner of procedure in the present work
77
2
10. The opinion of those who say that the existence of God, being self-evident, cannot be demonstrated
79
2
11. A refutation of the abovementioned opinion and a solution of the arguments
81
2
12. The opinion of those who say that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated but is held by faith alone
83
2
13. Arguments in proof of the existence of God
85
11
14. That to know God we must use the way of remotion
96
2
15. That God is eternal
98
2
16. That there is no passive potency in God
100
1
17. That there is no matter in God
101
2
18. That there is no composition in God
103
2
19. That in God there is nothing violent or unnatural
105
1
20. That God is not a body
106
10
21. That God is His essence
116
2
22. That in God being and essence are the same
118
3
23. That no accident is found in God
121
3
24. That the divine being cannot be determined by the addition of some substantial difference
124
2
25. That God is not in some genus
126
2
26. That God is not the formal being of all things
128
5
27. That God is not the form of any body
133
2
28. On the divine perfection
135
3
29. On the likeness of creatures to God
138
1
30. The names that can be predicated of God
139
2
31. That the divine perfection and the plurality of divine names are not opposed to the divine simplicity
141
2
32. That nothing is predicated univocally of God and other things
143
2
33. That not all names are said of God and creatures in a purely equivocal way
145
2
34. That names said of God and creatures are said analogically
147
2
35. That many names said of God are not synonyms
149
1
36. How our intellect forms a proposition about God
150
1
37. That God is good
150
2
38. That God is goodness itself
152
2
39. That there cannot be evil in God
154
2
40. That God is the good of every good
156
1
41. That God is the highest good
157
1
42. That God is one
158
7
43. That God is infinite
165
5
44. That God is intelligent
170
3
45. That God's act of understanding is His essence
173
1
46. That God understands through nothing other than through His essence
174
2
47. That God understands Himself perfectly
176
2
48. That primarily and essentially God knows only Himself
178
2
49. That God understands things other than Himself
180
1
50. That God has a proper knowledge of all things
181
4
51-52. Arguments inquiring how a multitude of intellectual objects is in the divine intellect
185
2
53. The solution of the above difficulty
187
2
54. How the divine essence, being one and simple, is the proper likeness of all intelligible objects
189
3
55. That God understands all things together
192
2
56. That God's knowledge is not habitual
194
2
57. That God's knowledge is not discursive
196
3
58. That God does not understand by composing and dividing
199
2
59. That the truth of enunciables is not excluded from God
201
3
60. That God is truth
204
1
61. That God is the purest truth
205
2
62. That the divine truth is the first and highest truth
207
2
63. The arguments of those who wish to take away the knowledge of singulars from God
209
3
64. The order of what is to be said on the divine knowledge
212
1
65. That God knows singulars
213
4
66. That God knows the things that are not
217
4
67. That God knows future contingent singulars
221
4
68. That God knows the motions of the will
225
2
69. That God knows infinite things
227
4
70. That God knows lowly things
231
4
71. That God knows evils
235
4
72. That God has will
239
3
73. That the will of God is His essence
242
2
74. That the principal object of the divine will is the divine essence
244
1
75. That in willing Himself God also wills other things
245
2
76. That God wills Himself and other things by one act of will
247
3
77. That the multitude of the objects of the will is not opposed to the divine simplicity
250
1
78. That the divine will extends to singular goods
251
2
79. That God wills even the things that are not yet
253
2
80. That His own being and His own goodness God wills necessarily
255
2
81. That God does not will other things in a necessary way
257
3
82. Arguments leading to awkward consequences if God does not necessarily will things other than Himself
260
3
83. That God wills something other than Himself with the necessity of supposition
263
1
84. That the will of God is not of what is in itself impossible
264
2
85. That the divine will does not remove contingency from things, nor does it impose absolute necessity on them
266
1
86. That a reason can be assigned to the divine will
267
2
87. That nothing can be the cause of the divine will
269
1
88. That in God there is free choice
270
1
89. That in God there are not the passions of the appetites
271
4
90. That in God there are delight and joy, but they are not opposed to the divine perfection
275
2
91. That in God there is love
277
5
92. How virtues may be held to be in God
282
3
93. That in God there are the moral virtues that deal with actions
285
4
94. That in God there are contemplative virtues
289
1
95. That God cannot will evil
290
2
96. That God hates nothing, and the hatred of no thing befits Him
292
2
97. That God is living
294
1
98. That God is His life
295
1
99. That the life of God is everlasting
296
2
100. That God is blessed
298
2
101. That God is His blessedness
300
1
102. That the perfect and unique blessedness of God excels every other blessedness
301
4
Subject Index
305
8
Index of Proper Names
313