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Blsd. John Duns Scotus (Dr. Tom Ward) | Ep. 409

Pints With Aquinas

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Aquinas Rejects University

Aquinas says a cause and an effect are univocal when the effect is of the same nature as the cause. But where God is the cause of creatures, the cause is of radically different nature from its effects. So there is no univocal causation between God and creatures. And Aquinas develops a theory of concepts and of talking about God that sort of tracks that. No creature stands in a univocal causal relationship to God, so the terms that we use don't apply to God univically.

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