St. Thomas Aquinas

✍ Scribed by Ralph McInerny

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 194
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas's continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas, McInerny shows how the thoughts of Aristotle, Boethius, and Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius were assimilated into the personal wisdom of St. Thomas. He also offers a helpful study of the distinctive features of Aquinas's Christian theology.

✦ Table of Contents

St. Thomas Aquinas
Contents
About the Author
Preface
Chronology
Chapter 1— Works and Days
I— Youth and First Studies
II— Paris: 1252–1259
III— Italy: 1259–1268
IV— Paris: 1269–1272
V— Italy: 1272–1274
Chapter 2— Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle
I— Aristotle Goes West
II— The Eternity of the World
III— The Nature of Man
A— The Structure of Physical Objects
B— The Structure of Man
1— Cognition and the Cosmos
2— Intellect and Survival after Death
3— Resurrection of the Body
IV— Man As Moral Agent
A— Man and Nature
B— Free Will
C— The Teleology of Human Acts
D— Theoretical and Practical Thinking
E— Natural Law
F— Moral Science
G— The Practical Syllogism
Chapter 3— Thomas Aquinas and Boethius
I— The Kinds of Speculative Science
A— Boethius and Platonism
B— The Object of Speculation
1— Intuition
2— Scientific Knowing
3— Modes of Defining
4— Degrees of Abstraction?
C— Abstraction, Separation, and Metaphysics
1— Two Mental Acts
2— Two Kinds of Abstraction
3— The Controversy
II— Essence and Existence
A— The Boethian Axiom
B— Separation and the Real Distinction
III— Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Free Will
A— The Divine Omnipotence
B— The Divine Omniscience
Chapter 4— Thomas Aquinas and Platonism
I— The Platonism of the Fathers
A— Saint Augustine (345–430)
B— Pseudo-Dionysius
II— The Problem of Universals
III— Illumination and Abstraction
IV— Essential and Participated Perfection
V— Magis Amicus Veritas
Chapter 5— The Tasks of Theology
I— Ontology or Theology?
II— Analogous Terms
III— Analogy and the Subject of Metaphysics
IV— The Two Theologies
V— Faith and Theology
A— Some Mental Acts
B— Two Kinds of Belief
C— Preambles of Faith
1— Criteria for Preambles
2— Why Reveal the Knowable?
3— Accepting What Cannot Be Understood
4— The God of the Philosophers
5— Preambles and Mysteries of Faith
6— Proofs of Faith?
VI— Proving That God Exists
VII— Concluding
Chapter 6— Envoi
Notes and References
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Selected Bibliography
A— Primary Sources
1— In Latin
2— In English
B— Secondary Sources
Index
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