By Thomas Aquinas, Richard J. Regan
In the direction of the tip of his lifestyles, St. Thomas Aquinas produced a short, non-technical paintings summarizing a few of the details of his colossal Summa Theologiae. This 'compendium' used to be meant as an introductory instruction manual for college students and students who would possibly not have entry to the bigger paintings. It is still the simplest concise creation to Aquinas's idea. in addition, this can be very fascinating to students since it represents Aquinas's final be aware on those issues. Aquinas doesn't holiday new floor or re-think past positions yet usually states them extra at once and with higher precision than are available in different places. there's just one to be had English translation of the Compendium (published as 'Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's personal Concise model of his Summa Theologiae,' by way of Sophia Institute Press). it really is released by way of a truly small Catholic publishing apartment, is advertised to the devotional readership, includes no scholarly gear. Richard Regan is a hugely revered Aquinas translator, who the following is determined by the definitive Leonine variation of the Latin textual content. His paintings might be obtained because the foremost English model of this crucial textual content.
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Rather, according to our way of understanding. being begotten is prior to sonship in both ways. 1y, insofar as sonship constitutes the person of the Son, and insofar as sonship is a relation. And we should understand the like about things that pertain to the procession of the Holy Spirit. ~65,. How the Notional Activities Differ Only Conceptually from the Persons And by the designated order between notional activities and notional properties, we mean only that the former differ from the latter according to our way of understanding, not that they are really different.
But forms do not have existing because of matter. Rather, matter has existing because of forms. For actu~ ality is better than potentiality, and that because of which something exists is necessarily better. Therefore, forms are not diverse because they belong to different matter. Rather, matter is diverse in order to belong to different forms. ~72~ What Caused Diversity in Things And if things are disposed toward unity and multiplicity in the way in which they are disposed toward existing, and if the whole existing of things depends on God, as I have shown [I, 68], God necessarily causes th~ plurality of things.
But if we should consider what belongs to the relation, it seems, conversely, that we should say that he is the Father because he generates. 4l64,.. How We Need to Understand Generation Regarding the Father and the Son Still, we should note 'that it is necessary to understand the order of active generation to fatherhood in one way and to understand the order of passive generation (or being begotten) to sonship in another way. For active generation by the order of nature presupposes the person of the one generating.