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.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Q48 A2: Whether evil is found in things?

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Yes. Evil is found in things (as corruption also is found, for corruption is itself an evil) because evil consists in the fact that a thing...
Friday, October 06, 2006

Q48 A1: Whether evil is a nature?

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No. Dionysius says ( Div. Nom. iv), "Evil is neither a being nor a good", i.e., by the name of evil is signified the absence of ...

Q48: The distinction of things in particular

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Is evil a nature? Is evil found in things? Is good the subject of evil? Does evil totally corrupt good? The division of evil into p...

Q47 A3: Whether there is only one world?

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Yes. It must be that all things belong to one world because the very order of things created by God shows the unity of the world. This worl...
Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Q47 A2: Whether the inequality of things is from God?

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Yes. As the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction of things for the sake of the perfection of the universe, so it is the cause of in...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Q47 A1: Whether the multitude and distinction of things come from God?

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Yes. We must say that the distinction and multitude of things come from the intention of the first agent (who is God) because goodness, whi...

Q47: The distinction of things in general

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The multitude or distinction of things Their inequality The unity of the world
Monday, October 02, 2006

Q46 A3: Whether the creation of things was in the beginning of time?

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Yes. The creation of things was in the beginning of time because things are said to be created in the beginning of time, not as if the begi...

Q46 A2: Whether it is an article of faith that the world began?

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Yes. The newness of the world is known only by revelation because it cannot be proved demonstratively. The newness of the world cannot be d...
Saturday, September 30, 2006

Q46 A1: Whether the universe of creatures always existed?

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No. It is not necessary for God to will that the world should always exist because the world exists inasmuch as God wills it to exist (sinc...

Q46: The beginning of the duration of creatures

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Have creatures always existed? Is it an article of Faith that they began to exist? How is God said to have created heaven and earth in ...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Q45 A8: Whether creation is mingled with works of nature and art?

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No. In the works of nature, creation does not enter because creation is presupposed to the work of nature. The operation of nature takes pl...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

Q45 A7: Whether in creatures is necessarily found a trace of the Trinity?

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Yes. In rational creatures, possessing intellect and will, there is found the representation of the Trinity by way of image, inasmuch as the...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Q45 A6: Whether to create is proper to any person?

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No. To create is not proper to any one Person but is common to the whole Trinity because to create belongs to God according to His being, t...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Q45 A5: Whether it belongs to God alone to create?

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Yes. It is impossible for any creature to create, either by its own power or instrumentally (that is, ministerially) because the proper eff...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Q45 A4: Whether to be created belongs to composite and subsisting things?

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Yes. Properly speaking, created things are subsisting beings because, as accidents and forms and non-subsisting things are to be said to co...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Q45 A3: Whether creation is anything in the creature?

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Yes. Creation in the creature is only a certain relation to the Creator as to the principle of its being because when movement is removed f...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

Q45 A2: Whether God can create anything?

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Yes. God brings things into being from nothing because if God did only act from something presupposed, it would follow that the thing presu...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Q45 A1: Whether to create is to make something from nothing?

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Yes. If the emanation of the whole universal being from the first principle be considered, it is impossible that any being should be presupp...

Q45: The mode of emanation of things from the first principle

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What is creation? Can God create anything? Is creation anything in the very nature of things? To what things does it belong to be cre...
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