"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.
Friday, May 19, 2006
Q18: The life of God
To understand belongs to living beings; therefore, in four articles, Q18 concludes the discussion of God's intellectual operations by considering the life of God: