"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.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Q9 A2: Whether to be immutable belongs to God alone?
Yes. God alone is altogether immutable because all creatures generally are mutable by the power of the Creator, in Whose power is their existence and non-existence (since He alone is the Pure Act that can be creating and sustaining existence).