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The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas & Contemporary Theology (Paperback)
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The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas & Contemporary Theology (Paperback)
Series: Sacra Doctrina
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This book provides a fundamental introduction to Aquinas's theology
of the One Creator God. Aimed at making that thought accessible to
contemporary audiences, it gives a basic explanation of his
theology while showing its compatibility with contemporary science
and its relevance to current theological issues. Opening with a
brief account of Aquinas's life, it then describes the purpose and
nature of the Summa Theologica and gives a short review of current
varieties of Thomism. Without neglecting other works, it then
focuses primarily on the discussion of the One God in the first
part of the Summa Theologica. God's transcendence and immanence is
a recurrent theme in that discussion. Evidence of God's immanent
causality in the natural world grounds Aquinas's five arguments for
the existence of God (the Five Ways) which then open onto God's
transcendence. The subsequent discussion of the divine attributes
builds on the modes of God's causality established in the Five
Ways. It also shows the need for a language of analogy to preserve
God's transcendence and prevent us from reducing God to the level
of creatures, even as qualities such as ""goodness"" and ""love,""
which we first know from creatures, are applied to God. The
discussion of God's providence and governance establishes that the
transcendent Creator God is most intimately present in creation.
God acts in all creatures in a way that does not diminish their
proper causality, but is rather its source. As there is no
contradiction between God's transcendence and immanence, so there
is no competition between the primary causality of God and the
secondary causality of creatures. Empirical science, which is
limited by its method to the secondary causality of creatures, is
shown to be compatible with the broader discipline of theology
which also embraces the primary causality of the Creator.
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