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Inside this Book – To clarify the point of this question, we should note that we speak of power in relation to actuality. But actuality is twofold, namely, the first actuality, which is the form, and the second actuality, which is activity. And as we see from the common understanding of human beings, they first attributed actuality to activity and, second, transferred actuality to the form, inasmuch as form is the source and end of activity. And so power is likewise twofold: one, active power, to which an act corresponds, and the word power seems to have been first attributed in relation to action; the second, passive power, to which the first actuality, that is, the form, corresponds, and the word power seems likewise to have been secondarily applied to the form. And as nothing undergoes anything except by reason of passive power, so nothing acts except by reason of the first actuality, that is, the form. For I have said that the word actuality was initially applied to the first actuality from its relation to activity. But it belongs to God to be the pure and first actuality. And so acting and pouring out his likeness to other things belongs especially to him. And so also active power especially belongs to him, since we call power active insofar as it is the source of activity. But we should also note that our intellect strives to express God as the most perfect thing. And because it can come to him only from the likeness of his effects and does not find in creatures anything so supremely perfect as to altogether exclude imperfection, it strives to designate him from the various perfections found in creatures, although all those perfections lack something.
- Full Book Name – The Power of God
- Author of this Book – Thomas Aquinas
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The Power of God by Thomas Aquinas PDF Book
- Inside this Book – To clarify the point of this question, we should note that we speak of power in relation to actuality. But actuality is twofold, namely, the first actuality, which is the form, and the second actuality, which is activity. And as we see from the common understanding of human beings, they first attributed actuality to activity and, second, transferred actuality to the form, inasmuch as form is the source and end of activity. And so power is likewise twofold: one, active power, to which an act corresponds, and the word power seems to have been first attributed in relation to action; the second, passive power, to which the first actuality, that is, the form, corresponds, and the word power seems likewise to have been secondarily applied to the form. And as nothing undergoes anything except by reason of passive power, so nothing acts except by reason of the first actuality, that is, the form. For I have said that the word actuality was initially applied to the first actuality from its relation to activity. But it belongs to God to be the pure and first actuality. And so acting and pouring out his likeness to other things belongs especially to him. And so also active power especially belongs to him, since we call power active insofar as it is the source of activity. But we should also note that our intellect strives to express God as the most perfect thing. And because it can come to him only from the likeness of his effects and does not find in creatures anything so supremely perfect as to altogether exclude imperfection, it strives to designate him from the various perfections found in creatures, although all those perfections lack something.
- Full Book Name – The Power of God
- Author of this Book – Thomas Aquinas
- Language – English
- Book Genre – Theology
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 1 MB
- eBook Pages – 348
