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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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I Am Wisdom, I Am Wisdom

When any name expressing perfection is applied to a creature, it signifies that perfection distinct from the others. None of us has the perfections of god in himself, but we all have perfections in ourselves, an from god. But when we apply wise to god, we do not mean to signify anything tinct from his essence or power or being. That's what i just said. And thus, when the term wise applied, is applied to man, in some degree, it circumscribes and comprehends the things signified. The wisest of human beings give us some kind of insight into the wisdom of god that might be higher, but they are themselves adequate to what god is

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