Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Questions on God (Cambridge ... (ISBN 0521528925)

Book Description:
Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae is his most important contribution to Christian theology and one of the main sources for his philosophy. This volume offers most of the Summa's first 26 questions on the existence and nature of God in an extensively revised version of the 1960 Blackfriars translation.

Superior edition of Aquinas' ST, 1, on existence/nature of God:
The first 26 questions of Aquinas' Summa Theologica include the most studied and influential; this book includes most of them and all the questions on the existence and nature of God. Brian Davies' provides an excellent and extensive revision of the Blackfiars (1960) translation and Brian Leftow writes a substantial and precise introduction on the Identity Theory and other issues. The Identity Theory: The medievals from Augustine to Aquinas, Scotus and later scholastics, and the "modern philosophers" ( Descartes, Leibniz, Malebranche, Wolff, etc.,) held the Identity Theory of God: God is identical with his attributes and existence. Brian Leftow is the foremost representative of the growing revival of the Identity Theory in analytic philosophy, which makes him best suited to write the Introduction on the foremost "traditional" Identity Theorist from Augustine to Christian Wolff, namely, Aquinas. But one cannot mention Brian Leftow without noting that his 1991 book TIME AND ETERNITY, justifiably called in 1995 "the contemporary classic on eternity" (one can plausibly add "and the best of the contemporary works developing the Identity Theory") is out of print, with no apparent plans for reprinting! Reprinting by some press is urgently needed.