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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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What Is the Mode of Signification of God?

Aquinus says god is not the same species and genus as you. In some way good as the author of personal goodness in creatures, an human beings. But he is not good in the way human beings are, but in some far exceeding way. He does not follow that god is good because he causes goodness, but rather, on the contrary, he causes goodness in things because he is good.

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