Book I: Of God as He is in Himself
Book I: Of God as He is in Himself
- The function of the wise man
- Of the author's purpose
- That the Truths which we confess concerning God fall under two modes or categories
- That it is an advantage for the Truths of God, known by natural reason..
- An advantage for things that cannot he searched out by Reason..
- That there is no lightmindedness in assenting to Truths of faith, although they are above reason.
- That the Truth of reason is not contrary to the Truth of christian faith
- Of the Relation of Human Reason to the first truth of faith
- The Order and Mode of Procedure in this work
- Of the opinion of those who say that the Existence of God cannot be proved
- Rejection of the aforesaid Opinion, and Solution of the aforesaid reasons
- Of the Opinion of those who say that the Existence of God is a tenet of faith alone
- Reasons in proof of the existence of God
- That in order to a Knowledge of God we must use the Method of negative differentiation
- That God is eternal
- That in God there is no passive potentiality
- That in God there is no composition
- That God is incorporeal
- That God is His own essence
- That in God existence and essence is the same
- That in God there is no accident
- That the Existence of God cannot he characterised by the addition of any substantial differentia
- That God is not in any genus
- That God is not the Formal or Abstract being of all things
- That God is universal perfection
- How likeness to God may be found in creatures
- What names can be predicated of God
- That the Plurality of divine Names is not inconsistent with the Simplicity of the divine being
- That Nothing is Predicated of God and other beings synonymously
- The application of common predicates to God and to creatures involves nothing beyond a mere identity
- That the things that are said God and creatures are said analogously
- That the several names predicated of God are not synonymous
- That the propositions which our understanding forms of God are not void of meaning
- That God is His own goodness
- That in God there can be no evil
- That God is the good of all good
- That God is one
- That God has understanding
- That in God the understanding is His very essence
- That God understands by nothing else than by His own essence
- That God perfectly understands himself
- That God primarily and essentially knows himself alone
- That God knows other things besides himself
- That God has a particular knowledge of all things
- Some Discussion of the Question how there is in the Divine Understanding a multitude of objects
- How there is in God a Multitude of objects of understanding
- That the Divine Essence, being One, is the proper Likeness and type of all things intelligible
- That God understands all things at Once and Together
- That there is no habitual knowledge in God
- That the Knowledge of God is not a reasoned knowledge
- That God does not understand by Combination and Separation of ideas
- That the truth to be found in propositions is not excluded from God
- That God is truth
- That God is pure truth
- That the truth of God is the First and Sovereign truth
- The Arguments of those who wish to withdraw from God the Knowledge of individual things
- A list of things to be said concerning the divine knowledge
- That God knows individual things
- That God knows things which are Not
- That God knows individual contingent events
- That God knows Infinite Things
- That God knows the Motions of the Will
- That God knows base and mean things
- That God knows evil things
- That God has a will
- That the will of God is His essence
- That the Object of the Will of God in the first place is God Himself
- That God in willing Himself wills also other things besides himself
- That with one and the same Act of the Will God wills Himself and all other beings
- That the Multitude of the Objects of God's Will is not inconsistent
- That the Divine Will reaches to the good of individual existences
- That God wills things even that as yet are Not
- That God of necessity wills His own being and His own goodness
- That God does not of necessity love other things than himself
- Arguments against the aforesaid Doctrine and Solutions of the same
- That God wills anything else than Himself with an hypothetical necessity
- That the Will of God is not of things in themselves impossible
- That the Divine Will does not take away contingency from things
- That Reason can be assigned for the divine will
- That nothing can be a Cause to the divine will
- That there is a free will in God
- That there are no passions in God
- That there is in God delight and joy
- That there is love in God.
- In what sense virtues can be posited in God
- That in God there are the Virtues which regulate action
- That the contemplative (intellectual) virtues are in God
- That God cannot will evil
- That God hates Nothing
- That God is living
- That God is His own life
- That the life of God is everlasting
- That God is happy
- That God is His own Happiness
- That the happiness of God is most perfect, and exceeds all other happiness