Book One — God

Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I. 102 chapters. Translated by Anton C. Pegis.

Up: Summa Contra Gentiles · Thomas Aquinas

Chapters

1. The Office of the Wise Man
2. The Author’s Intention in the Present Work
3. On the Way in which Divine Truth is to be Made Known
4. That the Truth about God to which the Natural Reason Reaches is Fittingly Proposed to Men for Belief
5. That the Truths the Human Reason is not Able to Investigate are Fittingly Proposed to Men for Belief
6. That to Give Assent to the Truths of Faith is not Foolishness Even Though They are Above Reason
7. That the Truth of Reason is not Opposed to the Truth of the Christian Faith
8. How the Human Reason is Related to the Truth of Faith
9. The Order and Manner of Procedure in the Present Work
10. The Opinion of Those Who Say that the Existence of God, Being Self-evident, Cannot be Demonstrated
11. A Refutation of the Abovementioned Opinion and a Solution of the Arguments
12. The Opinion of Those Who Say that the Existence of God Cannot be Demonstrated but is Held by Faith Alone
13. Arguments in Proof of the Existence of God
14. That to Know God We Must Use the Way of Remotion
15. That God is Eternal
16. That There is no Passive Potency in God
17. That There is no Matter in God
18. That There is no Composition in God
19. That in God There is Nothing Violent or Unnatural
20. That God is not a Body
21. That God is His Essence
22. That in God Being and Essence are the Same
23. That no Accident is Found in God
24. That the Divine Being Cannot 13e Determined by the Addition of Some Substantial Difference
25. That God is not in Some Genus
26. That God is not the Formal Being of All Things
27. That God is not the Form of Any Body
28. On the Divine Perfection
29. On the Likeness of Creatures to God
30. The Names that Can be Predicated of God
31. That the Divine Perfection and the Plurality of Divine Names are not Opposed to the Divine Simplicity
32. That Nothing is Predicated Univocally of God and Other Things
33. That not All Names are Said of God and Creatures in a Purely Equivocal Way
34. That Names Said of God and Creatures are Said Analogically
35. That Many Names Said of God are not Synonyms
36. How Our Intellect Forms a Proposition about God
37. That God is Good
38. That God is Goodness Itself
39. That There Cannot be Evil in God
40. That God is the Good of Every Good
41. That God is the Highest Good
42. That God is One
43. That God is Infinite
44. That God is Intelligent
45. That God’s Act of U11merstaming is His Essence
46. That God Understands Through Nothing Other than Through His Essence
47. That God Understands Himself Perfectly
48. That Primarily and Essentially God Knows Only Himself
49. That God Understands Things Other than Himself
50. That God Has a Proper Knowledge of All Things
51. Chapters 51-52
52. Chapter 52
53. The Solution of the Above Difficulty
54. How the Divine Essence, Being One and Simple, is the Proper Likeness of All Intelligible Objects
55. That God Understands All Things Together
56. That God’s Knowledge is not Habitual
57. That God’s Knowledge is not Discursive
58. That God Does not Understand by Composing and Dividing
59. That the Truth of Enunciables is not Excluded from God
60. That God is Truth
61. That God is the Purest Truth
62. That the Divine Truth is the First and Highest Truth
63. The Arguments of Those Who Wish to Take Away the Knowledge of Singulars from God
64. The Order of What is to be Said on the Divine Knowledge
65. That God Knows Singulars
66. That God Knows the Things that are Not
67. That God Knows Future Contingent Singulars
68. That God Knows the Motions of the Will
69. That God Knows Infinite Things
70. That God Knows Lowly Things
71. That God Knows Evils
72. That God Has Will
73. That the Will of God is His Essence
74. That the Principal Object of the Divine Will is the Divine Essence
75. That in Willing Himself God Also Wills Other Things
76. That God Wills Himself and Other Things by One Act of Will
77. That the Multitude of the Objects of the Will is not Opposed to the Divine Simplicity
78. That the Divine Will Extends to Singular Goods
79. That God Wills Even the Things that are not Yet
80. That His Own Being and His Own Goodness God Wills Necessarily
81. That God Does not Will Other Things in a Necessary Way
82. Arguments Leading to Awkward Consequences If God Does not Necessarily Will Things Other than Himself
83. That God Wills Something Other than Himself with the Necessity of Supposition
84. That the Will of God is not of What is in Itself Impossible
85. That the Divine Will Does not Remove Contingency from Things, nor Does it Impose Absolute Necessity on Them
86. That a Reason Can be Assigned to the Divine Will
87. That Nothing Can be the Cause of the Divine Will
88. That in God There is Free Choice
89. That in God There are not the Passions of the Appetites
90. That in God There are Delight and Joy, but They are not Opposed to the Divine Perfection
91. That in God There is Love
92. How Virtues May be Held to be in God
93. That in God There are the Moral Virtues that Deal with Actions
94. That in God There are Contemplative Virtues
95. That God Cannot Will Evil
96. That God Hates Nothing, and the Hatred of no Thing Befits Him
97. That God is Living
98. That God is His Life
99. That the Life of God is Everlasting
100. That God is Blessed
101. That God is His Blessedness
102. That the Perfect and Unique Blessedness of God Excels Every Other Blessedness