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Absolute (Thomistic) divine simplicity has been criticized by a number of Christian theologians, including John S. Feinberg, Thomas Morris, William Lane Craig, and Alvin Plantinga; in his essay "Does God Have a Nature?", Plantinga calls it "a dark saying indeed". [27] Plantinga presents three arguments against Thomistic divine simplicity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia pinpoints Aquinas' definition of quiddity as "that which is expressed by its definition." [13] The quiddity or form of a thing is what makes the object what it is: "[T]hrough the form, which is the actuality of matter, matter becomes something actual and something individual", [14] and also, "the form causes matter to be."
The Thomistic notion of merit is crucial to such tradition's understanding of the Last Judgment and the subsequent beatific vision. As it has been already mentioned regarding Aquinas' treatment of happiness in life, the fullness of the divine promises for those who perform meritorious actions is to be found only in Heaven.
Up to chapter 36 of the first part, Thomas discusses the doctrine of God's oneness and other aspects which are philosophically deductible, namely the divine necessity, eternity, immutability, simplicity, identity of being and essence, not belonging to any genus nor being a species, being incorporeal, omnipotent and infinite, containing every ...
Classical theism is characterized by a set of core attributes that define God as absolute, perfect, and transcendent. These attributes include divine simplicity, aseity, immutability, eternality, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence, each of which has been developed and refined through centuries of philosophical and theological discourse.
Divine simplicity; Analogia entis; ... Some interpreters read Aquinas to mean that assuming an infinite past, all possibilities would be realized and everything would ...
Her work on the translation of that and others in fact spurred her to then reinterpret phenomenology in Thomistic terms. [11] It was translated into Italian by Fernando Fiorentino (with notes and an introduction by Maurizio Mamiani) in 2005. [7] V. O. Benetollo and R. Coggi edited a translation into Italian in 3 volumes that was published in ...
Thomistic sacramental theology is St. Thomas Aquinas's theology of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. It can be found through his writings in the 13th-century works Summa contra Gentiles and in the Summa Theologiæ .