Matthew Schumacher C S C

The Knowableness of God Matthew Schumacher C S C

Introduction 5 Historical 16 CHAPTER I. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. 42 SECTION I. General Principles of Knowledge 42 a. Union of Subject and Object b. Object Known according to the Nature of the Subject c. Immateriality and Actuality of Subject and Object SECTION II. Theory of Intellectual Knowledge 68 a. Prime and Connatural Object of the Intellect b. Active and Passive Intellects c. Intelligible Species, Completion of the Act of Knowledge SECTION III. Validity of Knowledge 83 a. Sensible and Intellectual b. Adaequatio Rei et Intellectus c. Relativity of Knowledge SECTION IV. Causality and Knowledge 106 CHAPTER II. THE KNOWABLENESS OF GOD. 119 SECTION I. Existence of God 119 a. Relation between Chapters I. and II b. Existence and Conception, Relation of c. Existence of God -- How Known 1. Ontological Argument, not by 2. Demonstration, by 3. Innatism of Aquinas 4. Arguments to Prove Existence of God SECTION II. The First Cause 148 SECTION III. Nature of God 162 a. Infinitely Knowable in Itself b. Ontologism Rejected c. Position of Aquinas -- God Known by His Manifestations 1. Primum Ens 2. Remotion, Eminence, Causality 3. Analogy, Similarity, Relation 4. Anthropomorphism SECTION IV. Application of Principles to: 206 1. Infinity 2. Omniscience 3. Omnipotence 4. Personality 5. The Rounded Concept, Qui est Epilogue 226 Bibliography 230