Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Critical Essays on the Classics Series)

faith-and-doubt

• The Five Ways serve, incidentally but surely, to demolish human idols and preconceptions of the Divine—the Deus secundum opinionem.

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• Much apparent atheism can be motivated by a genuine, if not fully conscious, appreciation of and reverence for the divine transcendence.

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mind-and-cognition

• Aquinas cannot really mean what he says when he denies that a word can be applied to God and to a creature univocally.

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• The difference between logical predicates and nominal expressions is only secundum modum significandi, not secundum rem significatam.

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education-and-formation

• At Santa Sabina he was free to devise a curriculum of his own—one that would have the student body as its focus.

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• Existing expositions of theology were a hindrance for beginners: they indulged in a multitude of useless questions, articles, and arguments.

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