Series on the Summa contra Gentiles

Below are the links to all of my posts this semester on St. Thomas’s Summa contra Gentiles, based upon course and lecture notes for an upper-division medieval philosophy seminar.

1. The Sapiential Cosmology of St. Thomas Aquinas (introductory overview of ScG)
2. The Polyvalent Hierarchy of Wisdoms (introductory chapters of ScG)
3. God’s Power and Creative Act (ScG, II.6–27)
4. The Possibility of An Eternal World (ScG, II.28–38)
5. The Cosmos as Total Object of Creation (ScG, II.39–45)
6. The Unity of the Human Person (ScG, II.56–72)
7. Human Beginnings and Endings, Part 1 (ScG, II.73–90)
8. Human Beginning and Endings, Part 2: The Beginning of Human Life
9. Human Beginning and Endings, Beyond Human Death
10. The Universe is a Communion of Persons (ScG, II.91–101)
11. The Human Heart, Not Beyond Good or Evil (intro to Book III; ScG, III.2–6)
12. The Heavens and the Glory of God (ScG, III.16–24)
13. The Natural Desire to See God (ScG, III.25)
14. The Heavenly Vision of Love Itself (ScG, III.37–63)
15. God’s Providence, Governance, and the Stewardship of Creation (ScG, III.64–113)
16. The Theocentric Drama of History (ScG, III.114–136, and conclusion)