Aquinas's Summa Theologiae

by Davies, Brian; Boyle, Leonard; White, Victor; Wippel, John; Geach, Peter; Pasnau, Robert; Kenny, Anthony; McCabe, Herbert; Stump, Eleonore; Kent, Bonnie; Kerr, Fergus

• ISBN13: 9780742543423
• ISBN10: 0742543420
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of the origin of the universe and of the things to be found within it, especially human beings. Aquinas wrote many works, but his greatest achievement is undoubtedly the Summa Theologiae. This presents his most mature thinking and is the best introduction to his philosophical (and theological) ideas. Few secondary books on Aquinas focus solely on the Summa, but the present volume does just that. Including work by some of the best Aquinas scholars of the last half decade, it provides a solid introduction to one of the landmarks of western thinking.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
1 The Setting of the Summa Theologiae	1	(24)
Leonard E. Boyle
2 Prelude to the Five Ways	25	(20)
Victor White
3 The Five Ways	45	(66)
John Wippel
4 Form and Existence	111	(18)
Peter Geach
5 Aquinas on What God Is Not	129	(16)
Brian Davies
6 The Unity of Body and Soul	145	(32)
Robert Pasnau
7 The Nature of the Intellect	177	(18)
Anthony Kenny
8 The Immortality of the Soul	195	(8)
Herbert McCabe
9 Aquinas's Account of Freedom: Intellect and Will	203	(20)
Eleonore Stump
10 Habits and Virtues	223	(22)
Bonnie Kent
11 Natural Law: Incommensurable Readings	245	(20)
Fergus Kerr
Suggested Readings	265	(4)
About the Editor and Contributors	269