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"Aquina's Treatment of God"

Date Submitted: 03/21/2004 14:30:39
Length: 5 pages (1436 words)
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This essay evaluates Aquinas' treatment of the nature of a God, and explains how he pulls of the problem of evil in the world. Aquinas' Treatment of God As women are raped, children are murdered, and cancer is everywhere, people often raise the question of God's role in such atrocities. Saint Thomas Aquinas treats that issue in part of his book, the Summa Theologica. In this, he shows the relation of necessary and contingent being, …

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…cannot be both necessary and contingent, because he is actus porus (pure act), but the whole idea of necessity giving rise to contingency seems contradictory. God wills a universe of free, contingent beings, out of his own goodness, but you have to wonder whether this is truly possible. He does seem to allow for Gods creation of us and subordination to us, in argument of his divine will and goodness, but the questions still remains.

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