Thomas Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love A Summa of the Summa on the Theological Virtues

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaczor, Christopher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theological virtues.

Summa theologica (Thomas, Aquinas, Saint).

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. Summa theologica.

Thomas.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Catholic University of America Press, 2020.

Summary:

Thomas Aquinas on faith, hope, and love provides essential passages from Thomas's treatment of the theological virtues in the Summa theologiae, edited and explained for classroom use or the independent reader.

"Thomas Aquinas on faith, hope, and love is designed to make as easy as possible a first reading of key passages from the Summa theologiae. The book contains selections from the Summa that are most infulential, most important, or likely to be most interesting to the contemporary reader. The text of the Summa itself is edited and arranged for beginners. Each article begins with Thomas' answers to the question at hand and then goes to the first objection, followed by the reply to the fist objection, the second objection and its reply, and so on. This arrangement provides a greater accessibility and ease in following the argument. Below the text, copious footnotes illuminate the text as a professor in the classroom might. Some notes provide historical background to figures that Thomas presupposes his reader will know such as Gratian, Dionysius, and Lombard. Other notes offer doctrinal summaries of other parts of the Summa that illuminate what Thomas says about faith, hope, or love. Thomas had an enormous influence on theologians, Church councils, and popes after his time, so some footnotes examine this influence. Thomas drew heavily on sources of wisdom before him, so other footnotes summarize the teachings of earlier authors, such as Aristotle and Augustine. This book also contains introductory essays on the Summa, on faith, on hope, and on love, which provide an overview to situate the reader and place treatment of the theological virtues its larger context of the Summa. For those who have never read Thomas Aquinas on faith, hope, and love (and for those who teach them), this book provides ready access to the wisdom of the Angelic doctor."-- From the back cover

Contents:

Article 4: Is there certainty in the hope of those on earth?

Question 19: The Gift of Fear

Article 1: Can God be feared?

Article 2: Is fear fittingly divided into filial, initial, servile and worldly fear?

Article 7: Is fear the beginning of wisdom?

Article 9: Is fear a gift of the Holy Spirit?

Question 20: Despair

Article 1: Is despair a sin?

Question 21: Presumption

Article 1: Does presumption trust in God or in our own power?

Article 2: Is presumption a sin?

On Love (Charity)

Introduction to Love

Question 23: Charity in Itself

Article 12: Should the children of Jews and other unbelievers be baptized against their parents' will?

Question 11: Heresy

Article 2: Is heresy properly about matters of faith?

On Hope

Introduction to Hope

Question 17: Hope Considered in Itself

Article 1: Is hope a virtue?

Article 2: Is eternal happiness the proper object of hope?

Article 5: Is hope a theological virtue?

Article 6: Is hope distinct from faith and love?

Question 18: The Subject of Hope

Article 2: Is there hope in those who are in heaven?

Article 3: Is hope in those who are in hell?

Question 4: The Virtue Itself of Faith

Article 3: Is charity the form of faith?

Article 5: Is faith a virtue?

Question 5: Those Who Have Faith

Article 3: Can a man who disbelieves one article of faith have living faith in the other articles?

Article 4: Can faith be greater in one person than in another?

Question 6: The Cause of Faith

Article 1: Is faith infused into a human being by God?

Question 7: The Effects of Faith

Article 1: Is fear an effect of faith?

Question 10: Unbelief

Article 1: Is unbelief a sin?

Article 2: Is the act of faith suitably distinguished as believing God (credere Deo), believing in a God (credere Deum) and believing in God (credere in Deum)?

Article 3: Is it necessary for salvation to believe anything beyond natural reason?

Article 4: Is it necessary to believe those things which can be proved by natural reason?

Article 7: Is it necessary for the salvation of all that they should believe explicitly in the mystery of Christ?.

Article 9: Is it meritorious to believe?

Article 10: Do reasons in support of what we believe lessen the merit of faith?

Intro

Contents

Foreword by Peter Kreeft

Introduction

On Faith

Introduction to Faith

Question 1: The Object of Faith

Article 1: Is the object of faith the First Truth?

Article 2: Is the object of faith something complex, by way of a proposition?

Article 3: Can anything false come under faith?

Article 7: Have the articles of faith increased in the course of time?

Article 9: Is it suitable for the articles of faith to be embodied in a creed?

Article 10: Does it belong to the Pope to draw up a creed of faith?

Question 2: The Act of Faith

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8132-3360-7

OCLC:

1224364589