Sunday, 11 July 2010

Question 21 - God's Justice & Mercy

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Why this Question Matters. In Question 20 Aquinas introduced the idea of love in God. In treating of the topic, it became clear that the mos...
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Thursday, 1 July 2010

Question 20 - God's Love

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Why this Question Matters. Love is fundamental and we know from scripture that God loves, that “God is love” even. However, given the pictur...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Question 19 - God's Will

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Why this Question Matters. Man is made in God’s image and therefore it seems reasonable to inquire as to how much we can infer about God by ...
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Saturday, 12 June 2010

Question 18 - God's Life

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Why this Question Matters. Understanding, knowledge and intellect are things that we usually attribute to living beings, therefore it would ...
Thursday, 3 June 2010

Question 17 - Falsehood

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Why this Question Matters. Having dealt with the truth in Q16, it’s entirely natural that Aquinas should enquire into falsehood in this ques...
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Monday, 31 May 2010

Question 16 - Truth

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Why this Question Matters. Pontius Pilate famously asked “what is truth?” Questions such as “in what does truth subsist?” and “is truth eter...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Question 15 - Ideas in the Mind of God

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Why this Question Matters. As we saw in the background document on metaphysics, Plato thought that forms (which he called Ideas ) exist in a...
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Monday, 24 May 2010

Question 14 - God's Knowledge - Texts

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1.0 Introduction Question 14 assumes that we share St Thomas’s view of Mind. St Thomas shows how what we know of Mind can also be said of G...

Question 14 - God's Knowledge

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Preamble We've now come to a major division in what is often referred to as the “ Treatise on the one God ” (QQ. 2-26). Aquinas has talk...