Thursday, December 29, 2005

Vatican Council I on the Nature of God

Again, I think all my fellow Thomists out there will be greatly appreciative of the following quote from Vatican Council I, Chapter 1: “On God the creator of all things.” I find it particularly interesting that this understanding of God overlaps will all sorts of individuals who are otherwise theologically at odds with each other on various important issues (e.g., Charnock, Garrigou-Lagrange, and N. Geisler), yet nevertheless remain unified in the common belief on the nature of God. Is this a triumph of Thomism?
The holy, catholic, apostolic and Roman church believes and acknowledges that there is one true and living God, creator and lord of heaven and earth, almighty, eternal, immeasurable [lat. immensum], incomprehensible, infinite in will, understanding and every perfection. Since he is one, singular, completely simple and unchangeable spiritual substance, he must be declared to be in reality and in essence, distinct from the world, supremely happy in himself and from himself, and inexpressibly loftier than anything besides himself which either exists or can be imagined. (source: Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, v. II, Fr. Norman P. Tanner, S.J., ed.)

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