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.

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Q14 A13: Whether the knowledge of God is of future contingent things?

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Yes. God knows future contingent things because they are subject to the divine sight in their presentiality (yet they are future contingent...
Saturday, April 29, 2006

Q14 A12: Whether God can know infinite things?

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Yes. God knows even the thoughts and affections of hearts (which will be multiplied to infinity as rational creatures go on for ever) becau...
Friday, April 28, 2006

Q14 A11: Whether God knows singular things?

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Yes. God knows singular things in their singularity because His essence is the sufficing principle of knowing all things made by Him, not o...
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Q14 A10: Whether God knows evil things?

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Yes. By the fact that God knows good things, He knows evil things also , because the essence of evil is that it is the privation of good. Go...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Q14 A9: Whether God has knowledge of things that are not?

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Yes. God has knowledge even of things that are not because those things that are not actual are true in so far as they are in potentiality ...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Q14 A8: Whether the knowledge of God is the cause of things?

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Yes. The knowledge of God is the cause of things because God causes things by His intellect, since His being is His act of understanding; a...
Monday, April 24, 2006

Q14 A7: Whether the knowledge of God is discursive?

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No. In the divine knowledge there is no discursion because God sees all things in one act, which is Himself (therefore God sees all things ...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Q14 A6: Whether God knows things other than Himself by proper knowledge?

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Yes. God has proper knowledge of things (which is to know them not only in general, but as they are distinct from each other) because the e...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

Q14 A5: Whether God knows things other than Himself?

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Yes. God necessarily knows things other than Himself because the divine power extends to other things by the very fact that it is the first...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Q14 A4: Whether the act of God's intellect is His substance?

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Yes. The act of God's intellect is His substance because His essence itself is also His intelligible species: it necessarily follows th...
Thursday, April 20, 2006

Q14 A3: Whether God comprehends Himself?

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Yes. God perfectly comprehends Himself (i.e., He knows Himself as much as He is knowable) because the power of God in knowing is as great a...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Q14 A2: Whether God understands Himself?

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Yes. God understands Himself through Himself because, although in us sense or intellect is distinct from the sensible or intelligible objec...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Q14 A1: Whether there is knowledge in God?

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Yes. In God there exists the most perfect knowledge because the immateriality of a thing is the reason why it is cognitive: the mode of kno...

Q14: God's knowledge

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Q14 considers God's knowledge with sixteen articles: Is there knowledge in God? Does God understand Himself? Does He comprehend Hi...

God's intellectual operations

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Having treated of God's existence ( Q2 ) and what we can know of His essence ( QQ3-13 ), we turn now to consider His operations, beginni...
Monday, April 17, 2006

Q13 A12: Whether affirmative propositions can be formed about God?

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Yes. True affirmative propositions can be formed about God because the plurality of predicate and subject in the proposition represents the...
Sunday, April 16, 2006

Q13 A11: Whether this name, HE WHO IS, is the most proper name of God?

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Yes. This name HE WHO IS is most properly applied to God because of three reasons: (1) it signifies simply existence itself (since the exi...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

Q13 A10: Whether this name "God" is applied to God univocally by nature, by participation, and according to opinion?

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No. This name "God" in the three aforesaid significations is taken neither univocally nor equivocally, but analogically because i...
Friday, April 14, 2006

Q13 A9: Whether this name "God" is communicable?

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No. This name "God" is incommunicable in reality, but communicable in opinion , because this name "God" is communicable,...
Thursday, April 13, 2006

Q13 A8: Whether this name "God" is a name of the nature?

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Yes. The name "God" signifies the divine nature because, although God is not known to us in His nature (but is made known to us f...
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