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In the 'De Potentia', Thomas Aquinas runs a series of disputations on the power of God. The treatise considers ten questions related to God's power to create external things, namely the universe, angels, and human beings. His explanation of creation here is the most developed treatmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Other Authors: Regan, Richard J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
God (Christianity) > Omnipotence > Early works to 1800.
Dieu (Christianisme) > Omnipotence > Ouvrages avant 1800.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
God (Christianity) > Omnipotence
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Early works
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Table of Contents:
  • Question 1. The power of God absolutely
  • Question 2. The power in the godhead to generate
  • Question 3. Creation, the first effect of divine power
  • Question 4. The creation of unformed matter
  • Question 5. The preservation of things in existence by God
  • Question 6. Miracles
  • Question 7. The simplicity of the divine essence
  • Question 8. The things that we predicate of God eternally
  • Question 9. The divine persons
  • Question 10. The procession of the divine persons.