Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy of God

The Key Topics
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-65755-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Aquinas argues that, abstracting from divine revelation, God's existence can be argued for successfully, and that God is the source of the existence of all that is not divine for as long as it exists. His philosophical thought about God has been seminal for later thinkers, but can be hard to grasp as it is scattered across a broad range of his writings. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible single-volume account of Aquinas's philosophy of God which also evaluates it in the light both of various criticisms that have been made of it, and of philosophical thought more generally. It situates Aquinas's thinking about God in relation to major philosophers of the past and a number of important philosophers writing today, which will enable readers to understand Aquinas's philosophy of God in the context of centuries of philosophical thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Brian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Life, works and key terms; 2. Does God exist?; 3. Divine simplicity; 4. Finding words for God; 5. God as creator; 6. Knowledge in God; 7. Will in God; 8. 'Omnipotent' and 'eternal'; 9. God's perfection and goodness.

Über Autor(innen)

Davies, Brian
Brian Davies is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, New York. He is co-editor (with Brian Leftow) of The Cambridge Companion to Anselm (Cambridge 2006), and author of Thomas Aquinas's 'Summa Theologiae': A Guide and Commentary (2014), Thomas Aquinas's 'Summa Contra Gentiles': A Guide and Commentary (2016), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (2021), and (with Michael Ruse) Taking God Seriously: Two Different Voices (Cambridge 2021).