- Is the world governed by someone?
- What is the end of this government?
- Is the world governed by one?
- What are the effects of this government?
- Are all things subject to Divine government?
- Are all things immediately governed by God?
- Is the Divine government frustrated in anything?
- Is anything contrary to the Divine Providence?
"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.