Aquinas's Theology of God

No natural form in the world, be it non-living or living, can account for the order. One must posit a transcendent source of the teleological order found in the world. This reality is not subject itself to progressive perfection through engagement with other realities. Aquinas thinks human beings may have only a limited indirect philosophical knowledge of God. But that our positive knowledge of what God is remains very imperfect and has to be constructed by thinking about God analogically from consideration of creatures.