Reading The Summa

Why this Question Matters. Aquinas has established that the persons of the Trinity are subsisting relations, the relations being derived fro...

Why this Question Matters. God is one and yet God is three. In this simple statement of Trinitarian faith lays one of the greatest mysteries...

Preamble Aquinas has now established that there are real relations in God and that, as a consequence of divine simplicity, these relations a...

Why this Question Matters. In the previous question, Aquinas identified as foundational to the explication of the Trinity the scriptural aff...

Preamble It used to be standard practice to divide the summa into a number of “theological treatises” and on that account, we are now movin...

One of the important metaphysical concepts that Aquinas makes use of is that of a “relation”. He uses the concept in Ia q.13 in talking abou...

Why this Question Matters. This is the last question “concerning what belongs to the unity of God’s essence”, the so-called “Treatise on the...

Why this Question Matters. Having talked about God’s willing and His knowledge, together with things such as His providence that arise from ...

Why this Question Matters. Several times in scripture, both in the Old Testament and in the New, reference is made to the “Book of Life”. Cl...

Why this Question Matters. The predestination of the elect to glory is one of the great mysteries of the Christian religion. Consideration o...