How Long to Read Summa Contra Gentiles

How Long Does it Take to Read Summa Contra Gentiles?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Summa Contra Gentiles by St. Thomas Aquinas

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master and assimilate the intelligence and wisdom of the Greeks and the Arabs. In the Summa Aquinas works to save and purify the thought of the Greeks and the Arabs in the higher light of Christian Revelation, confident that all that had been rational in the ancient philosophers and their followers would become more rational within Christianity. This exposition and defense of divine truth has two main parts: the consideration of that truth that faith professes and reason investigates, and the consideration of the truth that faith professes and reason is not competent to investigate. The exposition of truths accessible to natural reason occupies Aquinas in the first three books of the Summa. His method is to bring forward demonstrative and probable arguments, some of which are drawn from the philosophers, to convince the skeptic. In the fourth book of the Summa St. Thomas appeals to the authority of the Sacred Scripture for those divine truths that surpass the capacity of reason. The present volume studies God's existence, nature, and substance, and especially his perfect actuality, the autonomy of his knowledge, the independence of his will, the perfection of his life, and the generosity of his love. Book 2 of the Summa deals with Creation; Book 3, Providence; and Book 4, Salvation.

How long is Summa Contra Gentiles?

Summa Contra Gentiles by St. Thomas Aquinas is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Summa Contra Gentiles Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Summa Contra Gentiles aloud.

What Reading Level is Summa Contra Gentiles?

Summa Contra Gentiles is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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