- Is there knowledge in God?
- Does God understand Himself?
- Does He comprehend Himself?
- Is His understanding His substance?
- Does He understand other things besides Himself?
- Does He have a proper knowledge of them?
- Is the knowledge of God discursive?
- Is the knowledge of God the cause of things?
- Does God have knowledge of non-existing things?
- Does He have knowledge of evil?
- Does He have knowledge of individual things?
- Does He know the infinite?
- Does He know future contingent things?
- Does He know enunciable things?
- Is the knowledge of God variable?
- Does God have speculative or practical knowledge of 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.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Q14: God's knowledge
Q14 considers God's knowledge with sixteen articles: