{"product_id":"2940012322760","title":"Of God and His Creatures","description":"SOME years ago, a priest of singularly long and varied experience urged\u003cbr\u003e   me to write \"a book about God.\" He said that wrong and imperfect\u003cbr\u003e   notions of God lay at the root of all our religious difficulties.\u003cbr\u003e   Professor Lewis Campbell says the same thing in his own way in his\u003cbr\u003e   work, Religion in Greek Literature, where he declares that the age\u003cbr\u003e   needs \"a new definition of God.\" Thinking the need over, I turned to\u003cbr\u003e   the Summa contra Gentiles. I was led to it by the Encyclical of Leo\u003cbr\u003e   XIII, Aeterni Patris, urging the study of St Thomas. A further motive,\u003cbr\u003e   quite unexpected, was supplied by the University of Oxford in 1902\u003cbr\u003e   placing the Summa Contra Gentiles on the list of subjects which a\u003cbr\u003e   candidate may at his option offer in the Final Honour School of Literae\u003cbr\u003e   Humaniores, -- a very unlikely book to be offered so long as it remains\u003cbr\u003e   simply as St Thomas wrote it. Lastly I remembered that I had in 1892\u003cbr\u003e   published under the name of Aquinas Ethicus a translation of the\u003cbr\u003e   principal portions of the second part of St Thomas's Summa Theologica:\u003cbr\u003e   thus I might be reckoned some thing of an expert in the difficult art\u003cbr\u003e   of finding English equivalents for scholastic Latin.","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069208084720,"sku":"2940012322760","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012322760_p0.jpg?v=1763567287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012322760","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}