- Is God a body?
- Is He composed of matter and form?
- Is there composition of quiddity, essence or nature, and subject in Him?
- Is He composed of essence and existence?
- Is He composed of genus and difference?
- Is He composed of subject and accident?
- Is He in any way composite, or wholly simple?
- Does He enter into composition with other things?
"It is because the contemporary alternatives seem so one-sided and are not more evidently solutions to the problems which Thomas faced, and partly solved, that we return to him and to the tradition of theology and philosophy in which his Summa Theologiae appears: theology as the science of the first principle and this as the total knowledge of reality in its unity." -- Wayne J. Hankey, God in Himself (Oxford University Press, 1987), p.159.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Q3: The simplicity of God
Question 3 has established the absolute simplicity of God by answering eight articulations of the question: