The Poer of God by Thomas Aquinas [Paperback]

In theDe 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 treatment found in any of his writings, but the principal purpose of the work is to analyze the internal life of God--that is, the Trinity. According to Aquinas, we predicate the Persons of the Trinity as relations, not as absolute things, and he examines the processions of the Son and the Holy Spirit in the light of reason.

The completeDe potentiais a very long document. In this new translation, Fr. Richard Regan offers an abridged version that passes over some of the full text while retaining what is most important when it comes to following the flow of Aquinas's thought.

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Introduction

Question 1: Creation, The Power of God Absolutely
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1. Is There Power in God?
2. Is God's Power Infinite?
3. Are Things Impossible for Nature Possible for God?
4. Should We Judge Something to Be Possible or Impossible by Lower or Higher Causes?
5. Can God Cause Things That He Does Not Cause and Abandon Things That He Causes?
6. Can God Do Things Possible for Others, Such as Sinning, Walking, and the Like?
7. Why Do We Call God Almighty?

Question 2: The Power in the Godhead to Generate
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1. Is There a Power in the Godhead to Generate?
2. Do We Speak of the Generative Power in God Essentially or Notionally?
3. Does the Generative Power Proceed to the Act of Generation at the Will's Command?
4. Can There Be Several Sons in God?
5. Is the Power to Generate Included in Omnipotence?
6. Are the Power to Generate and the Power to Create the Same?

Question 3: Creation, The First Effect of Divine Power
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1. Can God create Something Out of NothilcC