Aquinas's Summa: Background, Structure, & ReceptionIn this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Jean-Pierre Torrell brings his expertise to bear on Aquinas's Summa Theologiae. |
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Contents
Early Formative Years I | 4 |
Stay in Rome 12651268 | 11 |
Structures and Content I | 17 |
God in His Work | 24 |
The Second Volume | 30 |
Structures and Content II | 37 |
The Theological Virtues | 42 |
Reasons of Appropriateness | 51 |
Medieval Neoplatonism | 78 |
Maimonides | 84 |
The Beginnings ofThomism | 90 |
Cajetan | 96 |
The Jesuits and the Carmelites | 103 |
First Fruits | 114 |
Publications | 124 |
Conclusion | 131 |
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