"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.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Q6 A3: Whether to be essentially good belongs to God alone?
Yes. God alone is good essentially because God alone (in Whom alone essence is existence) has every kind of perfection by His own essence.