"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.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Q3 A1: Whether God is a body?
No. God is not a body because He is the Unmoved First Mover who is Pure Act and therefore Most Noble (i.e., more noble in being than mobile beings).