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Aquinas' Theology of God
Sometimes aquinas talks about deriving knowledge of god as the cause of creatures, then negate, then talking about how its super eminent. Sometimes he puts the negation aspect last to emphasize the transcendence and sort of incomprehensibility of the divine. We don't know what the the super eminent goodness of god is, of his utter transcendence. But we'll come back to the idea whether this, fundamentally, is our knowledge of god all negative, or is it also positive? She says, in this way, therefore we he can be named by us from creatures, yet not so that the name which signifies him expresses the divine essence in itself. The name man expresses the essence of man