- Is providence suitably assigned to God?
- Does everything come under divine providence?
- Is divine providence immediately concerned with all things?
- Does divine providence impose any necessity upon things foreseen?
"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.
Monday, June 12, 2006
God's operations of intellect and will
We now proceed to consider Providence (Q22), in respect to all created things; for in the science of morals, after the moral virtues themselves, comes the consideration of prudence, to which providence belongs.