- What is creation?
- Can God create anything?
- Is creation anything in the very nature of things?
- To what things does it belong to be created?
- Does it belong to God alone to create?
- Is creation common to the whole Trinity, or proper to any one Person?
- Is any trace of the Trinity to be found in created things?
- Is the work of creation mingled with the works of nature and of the 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.