"The good of the grace of one soul is greater than the good of the nature of the whole universe"
- St Thomas Aquinas Ia IIa, q.24, a. 3, ad 2

INDEX 1 - Index 2 - Index 3 - Index 4 - Index 5

• Translator's Preface
• Introduction
  • The importance and significance of the Theological Summa of St Thomas
  • The method of St Thomas especially the structure of the articles of the Theological Summa
  • On the various judgments about this method
  • On the Aristotelian foundation of St Thomas' method
  • On the inductive search for definitions
  • On the middle term in demonstration
  • On the perfect union of analysis and synthesis in the Angelic Doctor's method
  • The doctrine of St Thomas proceeds from the fullness of his contemplation
  • The relation between the study of theology and the interior life
  • The indebtedness of the interior life to study
  • What the study of theology owes to the interior life
  • The fruit of this mutual influence
• Prologue to the Theological Summa
• Ch1 Sacred Doctrine
  • Question 1: the nature and extent of sacred doctrine
  • First article: whether besides philosophy and further doctrine is required(1)
  • Second article: whether sacred doctrine is a science
  • Third article: whether sacred doctrine is one science
  • Fourth article: whether sacred doctrine is a practical science
  • Fifth article: whether sacred doctrine is nobler than the other sciences
  • Sixth article: whether sacred theology is the same as wisdom
  • Seventh article: whether God is the subject of this science
  • Eighth article: whether sacred doctrine is a matter of argument
  • Ninth article: whether sacred scripture should use metaphors
  • Tenth article: whether in holy scripture a word may have several senses
• Ch 2 The Existence of God
  • Question 2: Prologue
  • The existence of God
  • First article: whether the existence of God is self-evident
    • the Ontological argument and the opinion of modern philosophers
    • the declaration of the Church about Ontologism
  • Second article: whether it can be demonstrated that God exists
    • the authority of scripture
    • proof by reason
      • kinds of demonstration
      • discussion of causes
      • ontological validity of the principle of causality
  • Third article: whether God exists
    • the universality and order of these proofs
    • the order in which these five proofs are presented
    • is there a more general proof that includes confusedly these five proofs?
    • the first proof: from motion
    • the second proof: from the nature of efficient cause
    • the third proof: from the contingency of things in the world
    • the fourth proof: from the grades of perfection in beings
    • the fifth proof: from the order or the governance in the world
    • the one end to which these five proofs converge
• Ch 3 God's Nature and Attributes
  • Question 3: Introduction
    • on God's nature and His attributes in general
    • what formally constitues God's nature according to our conception of it
    • the various opinions as to what constitutes the divine nature
    • the divine attributes in general
    • how the divine attribute is defined
    • how the divine attributes are classified
    • how the divine attributes are distinct from one another and from the divine essence
  • The simplicity of God: Prologue
  • First article: whether God is a body
  • Second article: whether God is composed of matter and form
  • Third article: whether God is the same as His essence or nature
  • Fourth article: whether essence and existence are the same in God
    • confirmation of the thesis from the solution of the objections
  • Fifth article: whether God is contained in a genus
  • Sixth article: whether in God there are any accidents
  • Seventh article: whether God is altogether simple
  • Eighth article: whether God enters into the composition of other things
    • 1. the forms of pantheism known to St Thomas
    • 2. where and how St Thomas refuted the above-mentioned types of pantheism
    • 3. how modern pantheism can be refuted by invoking the principles formulated by St Thomas
    • 4. Does St Thomas in his discussion of the divine causality preserve intact the truth that is distorted by pantheism?
• Ch 4 The Perfection of God
• Ch 5 On Goodness in General
• Ch 6 The Goodness of God
• Ch 7 The Infinity of God
• Ch 8 The Existence of God in Things
• Ch 9 The Immutability of God
• Ch 10 The Eternity of God
• Ch 11 The Unity of God
• Ch 12 The Knowability of God
• Ch 13 The Names of God
• Ch 14 God's Knowledge
• Ch 15 Of Ideas
• Ch 16 Of Truth
• Ch 17 Of Falsity
• Ch 18 The Life of God
• Ch 19 The Will of God
• Ch 20 God's Love
• Ch 21 The Justice and Mercy of God
• Ch 22 The Providence of God
• Ch 23 Predestination
• Ch 24 The Book of Life
• Ch 25 The Power of God
• Ch 26 Of the Divine Beatitude