Summa Contra Gentiles #

14 passages treated in 53 classes; 27 passages mentioned in passing

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Book I #

Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 9 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Pars — 11. Summa Theologiae I, Q.1 aa.9–10 and the Prologue to Q.2: Metaphor in Scripture, the Four Senses, and the Plan of the Summa (from 48:34)

Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 35 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Pars — 149. Summa I, Q. 43, Art. 6 and a Logic Aside: Who Receives the Invisible Sending; How Names Signify Things Through Thoughts (from 22:49)

Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 60 #

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Treated in:

• Tertia Pars — 37. Christ’s Power over His Body and His Will (ST III q.13 a.3–4), with Digressions on ’the Way, the Truth, and the Life’ and God as the End of Understanding Creatures (from 0:51)
• Tertia Pars — 110. Abstract and Concrete Names of God, and Why It Was Fitting for Christ to Die (Question 50, Articles 1–2) (from 47:33)

Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 76 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Secundae — 2. Is It Good Because We Want It? The Order of Ends and Arts, the Chief Good, and Political Science (from 42:59)

Book II #

Summa Contra Gentiles II, ch. 4 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Pars — 54. Summa I, Q.14: The Order of the Question on God’s Knowledge, and Article 1: Is There Knowledge in God? (from 18:09)

Summa Contra Gentiles II, ch. 11 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Secundae — 83. Truth, Life and Appropriation in the Trinity; the Meter of the Adoro te; Operation as the Cause of Pleasure (ST I-II q.32 a.1) (from 1:31)
• Prima Secundae — 117. Power and Glory in Psalm 62; the Senses of ‘To Have’ and the Ten Categories (from 24:31)

Book III #

Summa Contra Gentiles III, ch. 5 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Pars — 128. Summa I q.39: Persons Compared to the Essence – Overview and Article 1 (Is the Essence the Same as the Person?) (from 38:27)

Summa Contra Gentiles III, ch. 17 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Secundae — 183. Aquinas on Ignorance as a Cause of Sin (Summa I-II, Q. 76): Is Ignorance a Sin, Does It Excuse, Does It Diminish? (from 38:27)
• Tertia Pars — 1. From the Head to the Feet: The Word Made Flesh and the Plan of the Tertia Pars (from 15:48)

Summa Contra Gentiles III, ch. 33 #

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Treated in:

• Tertia Pars — 41. Aquinas on Christ’s Emotions: Sadness and Fear (Summa III, Q.15, Arts. 6–7) (from 5:45)

Summa Contra Gentiles III, ch. 51 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Secundae — 240. God Cannot Deny Himself: Homicide, Theft, and Adultery in the Decalogue, and Whether the Mode of Virtue Falls Under the Law (I-II q.100 a.8–9) (from 5:48)
• Secunda Secundae — 4. Aquinas on Faith, Part 2: The Light of Faith, Whether Faith Can Be Scientific Knowledge (A.5), and the Articles of Faith (A.6) (from 9:45)
• Tertia Pars — 102. Seeing God as He Is, and Whether Christ Suffered in His Whole Soul (ST III q.46 a.7-8) (from 2:44)

Book IV #

Summa Contra Gentiles IV, ch. 2 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Pars — 3. The Necessity of Belief and the Two Roads to God: Vatican I on Revelation (from 46:27)

Summa Contra Gentiles IV, ch. 3 #

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Treated in:

• Tertia Pars — 43. Summa III q.16 a.1: Is It True That ‘God Is a Man’? Predication, Supposition and the Incarnation (from 30:01)
• Tertia Pars — 98. God Became Man: ‘Standing For’, the Fallacy of Accident, and the Senses of ‘Necessary’ – Introduction to the Passion (ST III q.46) (from 17:17)

Summa Contra Gentiles IV, ch. 15 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Pars — 5. Dei Filius III: The Church as a Sign of Credibility, the Canons on Faith, and the Two Kinds of Knowledge of God (from 0:03)
• Prima Pars — 15. God’s simplicity, perfection, infinity, unchangeableness and unity: why the mind looks for one, simple, unlimited, unchanging beginning, and an overview of the question on simplicity (from 0:00)
• Prima Pars — 39. Summa I q.12 intro and a.1: we name things as we know them; can a created mind see God’s essence? (from 0:02)
• Prima Pars — 41. Summa I q.12 a.3–4: Can the Bodily Eye See God? The Meanings of ’to See’ and ‘Eye’, and Why No Creature Sees God by Nature (from 0:02)
• Prima Pars — 54. Summa I, Q.14: The Order of the Question on God’s Knowledge, and Article 1: Is There Knowledge in God? (from 0:01)
• Prima Pars — 70. Summa Theologiae I, Q.16 aa.7–8: Is Created Truth Eternal? Is Truth Unchangeable? (with Aristotle’s convertible terms: being, one, true, good) (from 0:01)
• Prima Pars — 100. Summa I, q.27, a.3: A Second Procession in God, the Procession of Love, and the Word as ’the Thought’ (from 9:12)
• Prima Pars — 109. Summa I, Q.29 a.4: ‘Person’ in God Means Relation as Subsisting (Augustine, Boethius, and Univocal vs. Equivocal Names) (from 7:06)
• Prima Pars — 112. Aquinas on the Trinity (Summa I, q.30 a.3): Numbers in God, the Transcendental ‘Many’ and Two Kinds of ‘One’ (from 0:02)
• Prima Pars — 114. Summa I, Q.31, Articles 1–2: Is There a Trinity in God, and Is the Son ‘Other’ (Alius) Than the Father? (from 0:00)
• Prima Pars — 122. Thinking, thought and image: is ‘image’ said personally in God? (Summa I, q.35, a.1) (from 0:00)
• Prima Pars — 130. Trinity, Question 39, Article 3: Why the Three Persons Are One God, Not Three Gods (Nouns vs. Adjectives, ‘Thing’, Theology as Defense of the Faith) (from 0:02)
• Prima Pars — 150. Summa I, Q.43 a.7: Why the Holy Spirit Is Sent Visibly (the Dove and the Fire) (from 0:01)
• Prima Secundae — 9. Summa I-II, Q.1, Articles 6–7: Whether we will everything for the sake of the last end, and whether all people share one last end (jest, speculation, taste and the sweetness of the Lord) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 19. Shakespeare’s Definition of Reason and the Trinity; Is Beatitude Chiefly Vision or Pleasure? (Summa I-II, Q.4, A.2) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 37. Aquinas, Summa I-II Q.10, Articles 3–4: Is the Will Moved by Necessity by the Passions or by God? (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 39. Summa I-II Q.12, Arts. 1-2: Intention as an Act of the Will, and Intending the Last End and Intermediate Ends (from 0:02)
• Prima Secundae — 43. Serving the Lord and Learning from the Teacher; Counsel as Inquiry and Counsel About the End (Summa I-II, Q.14, Articles 1–2) (from 0:03)
• Prima Secundae — 55. Aquinas on the Will and Erring Conscience (ST I-II q.19 aa.5-7): Must We Follow Mistaken Reason, and Does Intention Make the Will Good? (from 0:01)
• Prima Secundae — 63. Summa I-II Q.22 a.3 and Q.23 a.1: Why Passion Belongs Chiefly to the Senses, and How Concupiscible and Irascible Emotions Differ (Eleven Emotions and Mozart’s Keys) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 67. Aquinas on the Order of the Passions: Love First Among the Concupiscible, Hope First Among the Irascible (ST I-II q.25 a.2-3) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 81. Summa I-II q.31 a.5: Are Spiritual Pleasures Greater Than Bodily Pleasures? (Understanding, Curiosity, and the Natural Starting Point) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 87. Natural Beginnings; How Pleasure Perfects Activity (I-II q.33 a.4) and the Case That All Pleasure Is Bad (q.34 a.1) (from 0:01)
• Prima Secundae — 103. Hope and Action; Is Fear a Passion? (Prima Secundae Q40 a8, Q41 a1) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 109. Shakespeare on the Effects of Fear, the Death of Saint Ferdinand, and the Causes of Boldness (Question 45, Articles 2–3) (from 0:02)
• Prima Secundae — 111. Aquinas on Anger, Part 1: Is Anger a Special Passion, and Is Its Object Good or Bad? (Articles 1–2, with side topics on ‘simply’ versus ‘in some way’, the natural desire to see God, and the art of logic) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 117. Power and Glory in Psalm 62; the Senses of ‘To Have’ and the Ten Categories (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 119. Aquinas on Habit (ST I-II Q49 aa.2-3): Why Habit Is the First Species of Quality, and Its Order to Action (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 123. Habits in the Angels: The Names of God, the Per Se Axiom, and Pure Act (Summa I-II q.50 a.6) (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 146. The Cardinal Virtues: Why They Are Principal, Why There Are Four, and Why Not Magnanimity, Humility or Patience (Summa I-II, Q. 61, aa. 1-3) (from 0:01)
• Prima Secundae — 152. Summa I-II Q.64 a.2–3: The Middle of Reason, Justice, and the Middle of the Intellectual Virtues (Truth, Contraries, and Opposites) (from 0:01)
• Prima Secundae — 166. Q70 Art. 3: Why Paul Lists Twelve Fruits of the Spirit, and the Loss of Wonder (from 16:09)
• Prima Secundae — 183. Aquinas on Ignorance as a Cause of Sin (Summa I-II, Q. 76): Is Ignorance a Sin, Does It Excuse, Does It Diminish? (from 0:00)
• Prima Secundae — 185. Summa I-II Q.77 aa.3–6: Sins of Weakness, Love of Self, the Three Concupiscences, and Whether Passion Lessens Sin (from 0:02)
• Prima Secundae — 205. The Debt of Punishment after Sin: Names of the Holy Spirit, Satisfaction, Medicinal Punishment, and Sons Punished for Their Fathers (Summa I-II, Q. 87, aa. 6–8) (from 0:07)
• Prima Secundae — 207. Aquinas on Venial and Mortal Sin (Summa I-II, Q. 88, Articles 2–3): the Temptation of Christ, the Spirit of Error, and Contempt for Order (from 6:49)
• Prima Secundae — 213. Law and Reason, Law and the Common Good (Summa I-II, Q. 90, Articles 1–2): ‘Beginning’ and Its Meanings, Ways to Divide Sacred Doctrine, and the Wise Man’s Judgment of Axioms (from 0:01)

Summa Contra Gentiles IV, ch. 88 #

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Treated in:

• Prima Secundae — 244. Summa I-II Q.102 a.3: The Reasons for the Old Law Sacrifices (Worship, Rejecting Idols, and Figures of Christ) (from 20:17)

Mentioned in passing #

Summa Contra Gentiles #

Summa Contra Gentiles I #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 13 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 14 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 16 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 18 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 28 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 37 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 42 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles I, ch. 43 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles II #

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Summa Contra Gentiles II, ch. 39 #

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Summa Contra Gentiles III #

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