Hello my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of

St Joseph. I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the

Thomistic Institute and this is Pines of the Quinas. My version of the

Summa theologian is almost 3,000 pages long, but I'm going to try to summarize it in 15 minutes.

Here we go.

Same Thomas teaches that theology is a science, that is a kind of knowledge, certain knowledge through causes.

How is that possible? Well, by the light of faith, we can share in the knowledge of God and of the Blessed, and so we can come to certain conclusions in reasoning upon revealed doctrines, which is wild.

Okay, so in the practice of theology what are we going to think about

God because it's theology and in a certain sense we could spend all of our time

thinking about God so St. Thomas will first show that God exists and these are the

famous five ways. So he shows on the basis of observations of the created world

that there must be a cause whereby to account for it and its intelligibility.

This he says, we call God.

Now, having shown that God exists, he then shows how God is not.

That is to say, he rules out certain limitations or imperfections and

goes ahead proving that God is simple and perfect and good, that God is

unchanging and eternal, infinite, omnipresence, one, etc.

And then I'll spend some time saying,

listen, we have to purify our speech.

So that way we don't bring creaturely limitations into the discourse about God, so be conscious of that.

And also we need to orient our discourse so that it reflects the grandeur of God.

And then he'll proceed further to describe God's knowledge and the

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