Thomas Aquinas Study Circle

"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 31, 2006

Q12 A8: Whether those who see the essence of God see all in God?

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No. Whosoever sees the essence of God does not know all things because all things are seen in God as an effect is seen in its cause. An int...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

Q12 A7: Whether those who see the essence of God comprehend Him?

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No. It is impossible for any created intellect to fully comprehend God because everything is knowable according to its actuality. God, whos...
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Q12 A6: Whether of those who see the essence of God, one sees more perfectly than another?

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Yes. He who possesses the more charity , will see God the more perfectly, and will be the more beatified. The faculty of seeing God does not...
Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Q12 A5: Whether the created intellect needs any created light in order to see the essence of God?

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Yes. The created intellect needs the grace of supernatural illumination of the intellect in order to see the essence of God because when an...
Monday, March 27, 2006

Q12 A4: Whether any created intellect by its natural powers can see the Divine essence?

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No. To see the essence of God is possible to the created intellect by grace, and not by nature , because the knowledge of every knower is ru...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

Q12 A3: Whether the essence of God can be seen with the bodily eye?

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No. God cannot be seen by any sensitive power because such power is the act of a corporeal organ and God is incorporeal ( Q3 A1 ). God cann...
Saturday, March 25, 2006

Q12 A2: Whether the essence of God is seen by the created intellect through an image?

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No. The essence of God cannot be seen by any created similitude because by the likeness of a body the essence of an incorporeal thing canno...
Friday, March 24, 2006

Q12 A1: Whether any created intellect can see the essence of God?

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Yes. The blessed see the essence of God because the ultimate perfection of the rational creature is thereby attained.

Q12: How God is known by us

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Approaching the conclusion of our study of what we can know of the essence of God, we summarize in 13 articles how God is known by us : Can...
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Q11 A4: Whether God is supremely one?

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Yes. God is supremely one because He is supremely being (i.e., He is being itself, subsistent, absolutely undetermined) and supremely undi...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Q11 A3: Whether God is one?

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Yes. God is one because of His simplicity ( Q3 A3 ), infinite perfection ( Q4 A2 ), and the ordered unity of the universe , of which univer...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Q11 A2: Whether "one" and "many" are opposed to each other?

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Yes. The transcendental "one" (which is convertible with "being") is opposed to "multitude" by way of privat...
Monday, March 20, 2006

Q11 A1: Whether "one" adds anything to "being"?

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No. "One" does not express any reality added to "being" because it is manifest that the being of anything consists in u...

The unity of God

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We continue with our study of what we can know of the essence of God. Q11 has four articles on the unity of God: Does "one" add ...
Sunday, March 19, 2006

Q10 A5: The difference of aeviternity and time

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Aeviternity differs from time, and from eternity, as the mean between them both , because time has "before" and "after"...
Saturday, March 18, 2006

Q10 A4: Whether eternity differs from time?

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Yes. Time and eternity are not the same thing because eternity is simultaneously whole , whereas time (whether it goes on forever or not) h...
Friday, March 17, 2006

Q10 A3: Whether to be eternal belongs to God alone?

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Yes. Eternity (in its proper meaning) is in God alone , because eternity follows on immutability and, properly speaking, God alone is altoge...
Thursday, March 16, 2006

Q10 A2: Whether God is eternal?

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Yes. God is eternal because He is supremely immutable (and time only follows on motion ). Moreover, God is His own eternity, because He ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Q10 A1: What is eternity?

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"The simultaneously-whole and perfect possession of interminable life" aeternitas est interminabilis vitae tota simul et perfecta ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Q9 A2: Whether to be immutable belongs to God alone?

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Yes. God alone is altogether immutable because all creatures generally are mutable by the power of the Creator, in Whose power is their exi...
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