On The One God

I. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

A. Our Knowledge of God's Existence

  1. God, our Creator and Lord, can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason.
  2. The existence of God can be demonstrated using the natural light of reason.
  3. General overview of the demonstration of God's existence
  4. The existence of God is also the object of Faith.
  5. The human soul is incapable of seeing God immediately by its natural efforts alone.
  6. Principal errors regarding the existence and natural knowability of God

B. The Nature of the Knowledge of God that We Can Attain in This Life

  1. God is incomprehensible to any created intellect and hence, ineffable.
  2. As wayfarers, our knowledge of God is merely analogical.
  3. As the nature of God cannot be adequately conceived by the mind, it cannot be expressed adequately by a name.
  4. Principal names given to God in the Old Testament

II. WHAT GOD IS LIKE

A. The Metaphysical Essence of God and His Attributes in General

  1. God is Ipsum Esse Subsistens
  2. God as Ipsum Esse Subsistens in Catholic Tradition
  3. Yahweh--Qui Est--is God's proper name
  4. Notion and Division of the Divine Attributes
  5. The distinction among the Divine Attributes

B. The Infinite Perfection of the Divine Essence

  1. God is independent and necessary
  2. God is absolutely simple
  3. God is absolutely infinite and perfect
  4. God is absolutely immutable
  5. God is eternal
  6. God is immense and ubiquitous
  7. God is Unity, Truth, Goodness and Beauty
  8. There is, and can only be one God
  9. God is really and essentially distinct from the world

III. THE ACTIVITY OF GOD

A. God is a Personal Being

B. God is Infinitely Perfect Life

C. God's Infinite Knowledge

  1. God knows all.
  2. God knows Himself in an infinitely perfect way.
  3. God knows all things distinct from Himself in knowing his own essence.
  4. God knows perfectly well all possible beings.
  5. God knows all beings, past, present and future.
  6. God infallibly foresees the free action of men and angels from all eternity.
  7. God is infinitely wise.
  8. God is infinitely truthful.
  9. God is infinitely faithful.

D. The Infinite Perfection and Sanctity of the Divine Will

  1. In God, there is a will that is infinitely perfect.
  2. The principal and proper act of the will is to love.
  3. Properties of the Divine Will.
  4. God loves Himself necessarily.
  5. The primary object of the Divine Will is God Himself; as a secondary object, God loves all finite things.
  6. Divisions of the Divine Will.
  7. The Divine Will is always carried out.
  8. The Divine Will and the question of evil.
  9. God is absolutely free in his operations ad extra.
  10. God acts for His own glory.
  11. The love of God for creatures is ordered.
  12. The will of God is infinitely holy.
  13. God is infinitely benign.
  14. God is infinitely just and merciful.

E. Divine Providence

  1. There is a Divine Providence that extends to all creatures.
  2. The evil that exists in this world is also subject to Divine Providence.
  3. God's Will is that all men (and women) be saved.
  4. Predestination and reprobation.

F. The Divine Power

  1. God is omnipotent.
  2. God is Lord over all things.


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