- Is there will in God?
- Does God will things apart from Himself?
- Does God necessarily will whatever He wills?
- Is the will of God the cause of things?
- Can any cause be assigned to the divine will?
- Is the divine will always fulfilled?
- Is the will of God mutable?
- Does the will of God impose necessity on the things willed?
- Is there in God the will of evil?
- Does God have free will?
- Is the will of expression distinguished in God?
- Are five expressions of will rightly assigned to the divine will?
"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, May 23, 2006
Q19: The will of God
We now begin to study the operations of God's will. Q19 has twelve articles: