The Treatise On The Devine Nature: Summa Theologiae I 1-13

by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint; Shanley, Brian J.; Pasnau, Robert; Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780872208056
• ISBN10: 0872208052
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

The treatise featured in this volume consists of the first thirteen questions of Aquinas' massive Summa Theologiae and is by far the best introduction to Aquinas' views on two central questions of philosophical theology: Does God exist? and What is God like? It has been newly translated for this volume and appears alongside a new commentary by a leading Aquinas scholar. This volume is the second to be published in The Hackett Aquinas, a series of central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in a new, accurate, readable translations, each with a commentary that makes it the edition of choice for anyone wishing to approach a given treatise in depth in English.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note	x
Introduction	xi
Summa Theologiae I 1--13
Prologue	2	(150)
Question 1 Concerning Sacred Teaching: What Is Its Character and What Is Its Range?	2	(15)
Article 1. The necessity of sacred teaching.	3	(1)
Article 2. Is sacred teaching a science?	4	(1)
Article 3. Is sacred teaching one or many sciences?	5	(1)
Article 4. Is sacred teaching a speculative or practical science?	6	(1)
Article 5. How does sacred teaching relate to the other sciences?	7	(1)
Article 6. Is this teaching wisdom?	8	(2)
Article 7. What is the subject of this science?	10	(1)
Article 8. Does sacred teaching involve arguments?	11	(2)
Article 9. Should sacred scripture use metaphorical or symbolic language?	13	(2)
Article 10. Should sacred scripture be interpreted in multiple senses?	15	(2)
Question 2 Does God Exist?	17	(7)
Article 1. Is the existence of God self-evident?	18	(2)
Article 2. Is the existence of God demonstrable?	20	(2)
Article 3. Does God exist?	22	(2)
Question 3 Divine Simplicity	24	(14)
Article 1. Is God a body?	25	(2)
Article 2. Is there composition of form and matter in God?	27	(2)
Article 3. Is there composition of quiddity, essence, or nature and subject in God?	29	(1)
Article 4. Is there composition of essence and existence in God?	30	(2)
Article 5. Is there composition of genus and difference in God?	32	(1)
Article 6. Is there composition of subject and accident in God?	33	(2)
Article 7. Is there composition of any kind in God, or is God absolutely simple?	35	(1)
Article 8. Can God enter into composition with other things?	36	(2)
Question 4 Divine Perfection	38	(6)
Article 1. Is God perfect?	38	(2)
Article 2. Is God perfect in every way, possessing in himself the perfections of all things?	40	(2)
Article 3. Can creatures be said to resemble God?	42	(2)
Question 5 The Good in General	44	(11)
Article 1. Are good and being identical in reality?	45	(1)
Article 2. Which is conceptually prior: good or being?	46	(2)
Article 3. Is every being good?	48	(2)
Article 4. To what kind of cause is the character of the good reducible?	50	(1)
Article 5. Does the character of the good consist of mode, species, and order?	51	(3)
Article 6. Is the good divided into the noble, the useful, and the delightful?	54	(1)
Question 6 Divine Goodness	55	(6)
Article 1. Is to be good appropriate to God?	55	(1)
Article 2. Is God the highest good?	56	(2)
Article 3. Is God alone good through his own essence?	58	(1)
Article 4. Are all things good by divine goodness?	59	(2)
Question 7 Divine Infinity	61	(7)
Article 1. Is God infinite?	61	(1)
Article 2. Is anything other than God essentially infinite?	62	(2)
Article 3. Could anything be infinite in magnitude?	64	(2)
Article 4. Could there be an infinite multitude of things?	66	(2)
Question 8 God's Existence in Things	68	(8)
Article 1. Is God in all things?	68	(2)
Article 2. Is God everywhere?	70	(2)
Article 3. Is God everywhere by his essence, power, and presence?	72	(2)
Article 4. Is being everywhere unique to God?	74	(2)
Question 9 The Immutability of God	76	(5)
Article 1. Is God completely immutable?	76	(2)
Article 2. Is being immutable unique to God?	78	(3)
Question 10 The Eternity of God	81	(11)
Article 1. What is eternity?	81	(2)
Article 2. Is God eternal?	83	(1)
Article 3. Is to be eternal unique to God?	84	(2)
Article 4. Does eternity differ from time?	86	(1)
Article 5. Is the aevum different from time?	87	(3)
Article 6. Is there only one aevum?	90	(2)
Question 11 The Unity of God	92	(8)
Article 1. Does one add something to being?	93	(2)
Article 2. Are one and many opposed to each other?	95	(2)
Article 3. Is God one?	97	(1)
Article 4. Is God supremely one?	98	(2)
Question 12 How God is Known by Us	100	(24)
Article 1. Can any created intellect see the essence of God?	100	(2)
Article 2. Is the essence of God seen by the intellect through any created likeness?	102	(2)
Article 3. Can the essence of God be seen through the eyes of the body?	104	(2)
Article 4. Is any created intellectual substance sufficient by its own nature to see the essence of God?	106	(2)
Article 5. Does a created intellect need some created light in order to see the essence of God?	108	(2)
Article 6. Among those seeing the essence of God, does one see more perfectly than another?	110	(2)
Article 7. Can any created intellect comprehend the divine essence?	112	(2)
Article 8. Does a created intellect seeing the essence of God know all things in that essence?	114	(2)
Article 9. Are the things known in God known through any likenesses?	116	(2)
Article 10. Are all things known at once that are seen in God?	118	(1)
Article 11. Can any human being see the essence of God in this life?	119	(2)
Article 12. Can we know God through natural reason in this life?	121	(2)
Article 13. Is there any knowledge of God through grace in this life that goes beyond the knowledge of natural reason?	123	(1)
Question 13 The Names of God	124	(28)
Article 1. Is God nameable by us?	125	(2)
Article 2. Are any of the names said of God predicated substantially?	127	(3)
Article 3. Are any names said properly of God, or are they all attributed to God metaphorically?	130	(1)
Article 4. Are the many names said of God synonymous?	131	(2)
Article 5. Are any names said of God and creatures univocally, or are they said equivocally?	133	(3)
Article 6. Are names said primarily of God or creatures?	136	(1)
Article 7. Are any names attributed to God beginning at a certain point in time?	137	(5)
Article 8. Does the name ``God'' refer to the nature of God or the actions of God?	142	(1)
Article 9. Is the name ``God'' communicable?	143	(2)
Article 10. Is the name ``God'' used univocally or equivocally?	145	(3)
Article 11. Is the name ``He Who Is'' the most proper name of God?	148	(1)
Article 12. Can affirmative propositions about God be formed?	149	(3)
Commentary	152	(203)
Guide to Sources	355	(2)
Bibliography	357	(8)
Index	365