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.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Q32 A4: Whether it is lawful to have various contrary opinions of notions?

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Yes. Different opinions of the notions are permissible because the notions are not articles of faith. Anyone may entertain contrary opinion...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

Q32 A3: Whether there are five notions?

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Yes. There are five notions in God ("innascibility," "paternity," "filiation," "common spiration" an...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Q32 A2: Whether there are notions in God?

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Yes. We must admit properties and notions in God because we recognize difference of hypostases [i.e. of persons] in the three properties (i...

Q32 A1: Whether the trinity of the divine persons can be known by natural reason?

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No. The trinity of persons cannot be known by natural reason because man cannot know and with his understanding grasp that for which no nec...

Q32: The knowledge of the divine persons

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Can the divine persons be known by natural reason? Are notions to be attributed to the divine persons? The number of the notions May ...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

Q31 A4: Whether an exclusive diction can be joined to the personal term?

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No. Such a way of speaking is not to be taken too literally, but it should be piously expounded, whenever we find it in an authentic work b...

Q31 A3: Whether the exclusive word "alone" should be added to the essential term in God?

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Yes. Nothing prevents the term "alone" being joined to any essential term in God, as excluding the predicate from all things but G...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Q31 A2: Whether the Son is other than the Father?

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Yes. The Son is other than the Father because this word "other" [ alius ], in the masculine sense, means only a distinction of ...
Monday, July 24, 2006

Q31 A1: Whether there is trinity in God?

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Yes. The name "Trinity" in God signifies the determinate number of persons because the plurality of persons in God requires that ...

Q31: The unity or plurality in God

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The word "Trinity" Can we say that the Son is other than the Father? Can an exclusive term, which seems to exclude otherness,...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

Q30 A4: Whether this term "person" can be common to the three persons?

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Yes. This name "person" is common in idea to the three divine persons because this name "person" is not given to signif...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

Q30 A3: Whether the numeral terms denote anything real in God?

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No. The numeral terms in God signify the things of which they are said, and beyond this they add negation only , because numeral terms predi...
Friday, July 21, 2006

Q30 A2: Whether there are more than three persons in God?

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No. Only three persons exist in God (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) because the several persons are the several subsisting relati...
Thursday, July 20, 2006

Q30 A1: Whether there are several persons in God?

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Yes. There are several persons in God because this word "person" signifies in God a relation as subsisting in the divine nature. ...

Q30: The plurality of persons in God

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Are there several persons in God? How many are they? What do the numeral terms signify in God? The community of the term "person...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Q29 A4: Whether this word "person" signifies relation?

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Yes. A divine person signifies a relation as subsisting because this is to signify relation by way of substance, and such a relation is a h...

Q29 A3: Whether the word "person" should be said of God?

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Yes. This name "person" is fittingly applied to God because "person" signifies what is most perfect in all nature (that...

Q29 A2: Whether "person" is the same as hypostasis, subsistence, and essence?

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No. Hypostasis and person add the individual principles to the idea of essence because strictly speaking, the essence is what is expressed ...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

Q29 A1: The definition of "person"

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Yes, the definition of person given by Boethius (De Duab. Nat.) is sufficient (that is, " a person is an individual substance of a rat...

QQ29-32: The persons in general

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THE PERSONS OF THE BLESSED TRINITY IN GENERAL: The signification (Q29) of the word "person". The number (Q30) of the persons, an...
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