Archive for October 2nd, 2008
Aquinas on God’s Self-Making
St. Thomas acknowledges that “God knows necessarily whatever He wills, but does not will necessarily whatever He wills.” (ST, I, 19, 3, ad 6) But God’s knowledge is His essence. So, God’s essence depends on God’s will. This essence could have been different, depending on what God might have chosen to bring about. Ah, Aquinas [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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Whether God’s Perfection Follows from His Pure Actuality?
I don’t think so. Pure actuality does not imply value judgments “better” or “worse.” A thing can be fully actual without being perfect. It can have no potentiality for change or corruption, yet it is not obvious that such a thing must have omnipotence, omniscience, and unsurpassable love. The reverse follows, however: a perfect actuality [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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Notes on the Nature of the Trinity
In Why Is God a Trinity? I have written: “So, imagine God the Father scanning Himself, His own essence, and this act of coming to understand and comprehend Himself in His infinitude is the procession of the Son. Thus, the Son is the Image of the Father, which results from the Father’s getting to know [...]
Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Philosophy, Religion.
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