Creation as Efficient Causation in Aquinas

In this article, I explore Aquinas's account of divine creative activities as a type of efficient causation. I propose that Aquinas's works hold a framework for understanding God as an efficient cause and creating as an act of divine efficient causation that makes explicit what Aquinas vie...

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Main Author: Swanstrom, Julie Loveland (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center [2019]
In: American catholic philosophical quarterly
Year: 2019, Volume: 93, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27
Further subjects:B Christian Philosophy
B Catholic Church
B theory of knowledge
B CAUSATION (Philosophy)
B THOMAS, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274
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