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Episode 21 – Analogical Naming of God in Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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God Is Good, Isn't He?

All names applied to god would be said of him by way of being taken in a secondary sense, as healthy. What's really good is the world and then god is somehow the mysterious author of that goodness. You don't want to make mistake of naming god as a secondary feature of reality because he gives you what you think is the most important thing: the goodness of the world. O people, when they give thanks to god, rsoing good havits in live tand say, god is so good, they don't mean just that god is not evil. They mean they mean to praise the goodness of god. It would be very liturgically consequential if you held mim

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