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Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, is one of the most respected Christian authors of our time. His many bestselling books cover a vast array of topics in spirituality, theology, and philosophy. They include How to Be Holy, Practical Theology, Back to Virtue, Because God Is Real, You Can Understand the Bible, Angels and Demons, Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing, and A Summa of the Summa.
Preface | p. 11 |
Introduction | p. 13 |
Glossary | p. 27 |
Methodology: Theology as a Science | |
Prologue | p. 37 |
The Nature and Extent of Sacred Doctrine (I, 1) | p. 39 |
Proofs for the Existence of God | |
The Existence of God (I, 2) | p. 45 |
The Nature of God | |
Of the Simplicity of God (I, 3) | p. 65 |
The Existence of God in Things (I, 8) | p. 69 |
The Immutability of God (I, 9) | p. 73 |
The Names of God (I, 13) | p. 75 |
Of God's Knowledge (I, 14) | p. 78 |
Of Truth (I, 16) | p. 81 |
The Will of God (I, 19) | p. 83 |
God's Love (I, 20) | p. 85 |
The Providence of God (I, 22) | p. 88 |
Cosmology: Creation and Providence | |
Of the Beginning of the Duration of Creatures (I, 46) | p. 91 |
Anthropology: Body and Soul | |
Of Man Who Is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: and in the First Place, concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul (I, 75) | p. 99 |
Of the Union of Body and Soul (I, 76) | p. 103 |
Epistemology and Psychology | |
Of the Will (I, 82) | p. 107 |
Of Free-Will (I, 83) | p. 111 |
How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things beneath It (I, 84) | p. 114 |
Of the Mode and Order of Understanding (I, 85) | p. 121 |
Ethics | |
Of Those Things in Which Man's Happiness Consists (I-II, 2) | p. 131 |
Of Goodness in General (I, 5) | p. 150 |
The Distinction of Things in Particular (I, 48) | p. 151 |
Of the Cardinal Virtues (I-II, 61) | p. 153 |
Of the Theological Virtues (I-II, 62) | p. 155 |
Of the Various Kinds of Law (I-II, 91) | p. 157 |
Of the Natural Law (I-II, 94) | p. 161 |
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