"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.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Q7 A2: Whether anything but God can be essentially infinite?
No. God alone is absolutely infinite because, while things other than God can be relatively infinite (e.g., angels who are self-subsisting forms), only God is self-subsistent being.