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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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How Did We Know What We Know About God?

Aquinas says god can be known from his effects, because the effects resemble the cause. But secondly, we had to carefully qualify that God is not like creatures. He's good in some super eminent way - wholly unlike creatures. And then finally, we can speak about supereminence or pre eminence of those analogical scriptions in god. So lyk goodness. In t itatis, it pertains to hisa finite perfection, the infinite perfection of the goodness of god.

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