Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: A Critical Guide

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Hause (Editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Alone among Thomas Aquinas' works, the Summa Theologiae contains well-developed and integrated discussions of metaphysics, ethics, law, human action, and the divine nature. The essays in this volume, by scholars representing varied approaches to the study of Aquinas, offer thorough, cutting-edge expositions and analyses of these topics and show how they relate to Aquinas' larger system of thought. The volume also examines the reception of the Summa Theologiae from the thirteenth century to the present day, showing how scholars have understood and misunderstood this key text - and how, even after seven centuries of interpretation, we still have much to learn from it. Detailed and accessible, this book will be highly important for scholars and students of medieval philosophy and theology.

✦ Table of Contents

01 - On What There Is in Aquinas
02 - Dead Ends, Bad Form - Positivity of Evil in Summa Theologiae
03 - Summa Theologiae on What God Is Not
04 - Trinity
05 - Aquinas on Soul - Some Intriguing Conundrums
06 - Emotion and Desire in Summa Theologiae
07 - Aquinas on Moral Progress
08 - Practical Reason and Normativity
09 - Natural Law
10 - Natural Reason and Supernatural Faith
11 - Significance of Christology in Summa Theologiae
12 - From Theology to Philosophy - Changing Status of Summa Theologiae, 1500–2000
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