The Nature of God 1.10.q9.1
When [God] is said to be “angry” with the wicked and pleased with the good, they are changed, not Him. Augustine Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo Zanchi Translated by Patrick J. O’Banion Book 1, Chapter 10, Quaestio 9, Part 1 Volume 1 is available for order now from […]
The Nature of God 1.10.q8.3
Why did God create all things good and beautiful? So that, through them, we might arrive at a knowledge of Him and understand how good, how beautiful, how sweet, how lovely He is on the basis of the goodness of creatures. Girolamo Zanchi Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo […]
The Nature of God 1.10.q8.2
Created things are predicated according to the relationship and correspondence that they have with God Himself on whose account and with respect to whom they are actually said to be such as they are. Girolamo Zanchi Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo Zanchi Translated by Patrick J. O’Banion Book […]
The Nature of God 1.10.q8.1
A truly beautiful relationship exists between God and the things created by Him. For God is both the efficient and final cause of all created things and, thus, they have a relationship toward Him. Girolamo Zanchi Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo Zanchi Translated by Patrick J. O’Banion Book […]
The Nature of God 1.10.q8.1
The Nature of God 1.9.q7.5
Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo Zanchi Translated by Patrick J. O’Banion Book 1, Chapter 9, Quaestio 7, Part 5 Volume 1 is available for order now from Merchant Royal Press The Sixth Thesis Of those names signifying the divine essence in the abstract, some, such as deity and […]
The Nature of God 1.9.q7.4
Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo Zanchi Translated by Patrick J. O’Banion Book 1, Chapter 9, Quaestio 7, Part 4 Volume 1 is available for order now from Merchant Royal Press Although Scripture sometimes calls idols gods … it does not do so because it condones this sort of […]
The Nature of God 1.9.q7.3
Creatures can also be named by any names that are predicated of God—that describe what He is like—but only those perfections that can be communicated to creatures and only insofar as they are communicated. Girolamo Zanchi Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo Zanchi Translated by Patrick J. O’Banion Book […]
The Nature of God 1.9.q7.2
The reason why we are good, strong, and intelligent (and so on … ) is because this goodness flows into us from God, as from a fountain. Girolamo Zanchi Five Books on the Nature of God,orOn the Divine Attributes By Girolamo Zanchi Translated by Patrick J. O’Banion Book 1, Chapter 9, Quaestio 7, Part 2 […]
The Nature of God 1.9.q7.1
Insofar as, in a certain sense, God is everything that is … to that extent God Himself can also be named by the names of all things, signifying a certain perfection. But it is also the case that God is in no way anything that is, both because He is above all things and because […]