"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.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Q11 A4: Whether God is supremely one?
Yes. God is supremely one because He is supremely being (i.e., He is being itself, subsistent, absolutely undetermined) and supremely undivided (i.e., He is divided neither actually nor potentially, by any mode of division; He is altogether simple).