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The Summa Theologiae intended to explain the Christian faith to beginning theology students, whereas the Summa contra Gentiles, to explain the Christian faith and defend it in hostile situations, with arguments adapted to the intended circumstances of its use, each article refuting a certain belief or a specific heresy. [3]
Thomistic theology of merit is the set of beliefs developed by Thomistic thinkers regarding merit in Christianity. Thomas Aquinas discussed merit extensively in his early Commentary on the Sentences and in his mature Summa Theologica .
In the opening chapter, Aquinas affirms that the book's target audience are those searching for a convenient synopsis of Christian theology. The Compendium is a particularly mature work, written at the end of the theologian's career, and it can be seen as a brief assessment of the topics which the author understood as most important. [ 1 ]
Fifteen letters on theological, philosophical, or political subjects; Ninety-nine Homilies Upon the Epistles and Gospels for Forty-nine Sundays of the Year; A collection of glosses from the Church Fathers on the Gospels (Catena aurea) Systematic works (Summa Theologiae, Summa contra Gentiles, and commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences)
3.4 Free will. 4 Epistemology. 5 Impact. 6 ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... In theology, his Summa Theologica is amongst the most influential documents in ...
The Summa represents an attempt to "make available the advices and conclusions of the moral theologians to the ordinary priests for specific cases." [3] Thomas lays out the agenda of the work in its preface: "We will more carefully pursue the duties and practical considerations which are necessary for priests to hear confessions and enjoin penances."
Thomistic sacramental theology is St. Thomas Aquinas's theology of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. It can be found through his writings in the 13th-century works Summa contra Gentiles and in the Summa Theologiæ .
Black Theology and Black Power; A Black Theology of Liberation; Book of the 24 Philosophers; Book of the Dispute of Raymond the Christian and Omar the Saracen; A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits