Summa Theologica

Dante voyages through paradise in nine spheres, there order is the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Fixed Stars. This is a trip through heaven's journey towards the vision of God in the Empyrean, a realm of pure light (The World of Dante). The sun is the home for the theologians and wise men (Digital Dante). At this time, the sun was seen as a symbol of intellectual power and illumination, it could even represent God. This “planet” was perfect for the theologians and wise men…

Dirk Bouts was a Northern Renaissance and Early Netherlandish painter. He was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden. He was known for his devotional panels and portraits and most of his paintings had to do with Biblical concepts. He lived during a time in history when the middle ages ended and the renaissance began. His painting, Moses before the burning bush, with Moses removing his shoes, is a beautiful rendering of the scene when Moses first beholds the presence of God,…

favorable attitude to property by arguing that private property as not only being natural to the worldly order but also beneficial as compared to holding property in common as people are better stewards when they own the property privately. In the Summa Theologica, Aquinas is of the opinion that while the nature of property is in the control of God, the use of this property is under the dominion of men, and that “by his reason and will, he is able to use them for his own profit.” (Aquinas, 1981,…

movement helped to insprire other religious philosophers to have a rationalist approach to the church dogma. Theologian's such as Thomas Aquinas came to write and lecture wide varieties of theological and biblical subjects. In his major work Summa Theologica, Aquinas writes many questions and topics ranging on the nature of God to the ethics of money lending. Questions such as “Whether God exits?”, “Whether man has free choice?”, and “Whether man can merit eternal life without grace?”. As…

St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica: Proofs for the Existence of God, is a thirteenth century collection of five deductive arguments that, as the name suggests, supposedly prove the existence of God. In these arguments, or proofs, as Aquinas calls them, there is the assumption that there are some things that only God is capable of making happen – such as motion and cause - and ergo, God has to exist for these things to exist. Aquinas' first argument for the existence of God is that of the…

In general, only truly faithful and dedicated Christians will receive the true secrets from God. As a philosopher, and a Christian theologian, “the Summa Theologica,” is “the most comprehensive and systematic works meant to question and investigate many topics” (Baird). To include, five ways to prove the existence of God, by asking and answering any objections to his arguments, for example the first argument…

exists. They take most of their arguments directly from Thomas Aquinas, the original causal theist. 2. Premises: They believe that they have several solid pieces of evidence, but probably their strongest case comes in the form of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. a. One of the premises of causal theists beliefs is actually fairly close to a scientific law, they say that things only change when made to change by something else. That is similar to Isaac Newton’s first law of motion which states…

degenerative effects of the passage of time on fallen human nature” (Britannica). The Age of Faith sent Europe into a reform of Christianity and the development of literature. A specific example of a detailed development of literature is the Summa Theologica written by Saint Thomas Aquinas and in his book he provided logical arguments for the church’s philosophy at the time. Although this book was arguing against the church and although the Christian church went through a lot of problems, the…

the most recent years, a rise in terrorism globally has invoked a string of United States military actions in response. Though these actions have been debated by pacifists to warmongers based on personal beliefs, Aquinas’s just war theory from Summa Theologica is the most impartial and distinguished method to justify or condemn the U.S. military’s involvement. There are numerous actions taken by the United States military that were, and still are, widely discussed; however, there is one action…

The cosmological argument aims to study the nature and order of the universe. “‘The world cannot come from nothing’. The idea here is that the existence of the universe demands a cause, reason, or explanation.” (Davis, 1993) It is also known as the first cause argument. The argument states that we can infer the existence of God from the universe. It is an a posteriori argument which starts at experience. Cosmological arguments are made from the viewpoint of observation. The cosmological…