Title

Activity, Identity, and God: A Tension in Aquinas and His Interpreters

Department/School

Philosophy

Date

2015

Document Type

Article

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20151225

Abstract

Are all God’s activities identical to God? If not, which are identical to God and which not? Although it is seldom noticed, the texts of Aquinas (at least on the surface) suggest conflicting answers to these questions, giving rise to a diversity of opinion among interpreters of Aquinas. In this paper, we draw attention to this conflict and offer what we believe to be the strongest textual and speculative support for and against each of the main answers to these questions.

Volume

12

Issue

2

Published in

Studia Neoaristotelica

Citation/Other Information

Grant, W. Matthews, and Mark Spencer. “Activity, Identity, and God: A Tension in Aquinas and His Interpreters.” Studia Neoaristotelica 12, no. 2 (2015): 5-61. https://doi.org/10.5840/studneoar20151225

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