Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction by Fergus Kerr

Author:Fergus Kerr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Much is truly said about God in philosophy but, according to Christian revelation, human desire for happiness can be fulfilled only in union with God; there is no disharmony between philosophy and theology, to the contrary, faith fulfils reason, the legacy of ancient Greece can and should for the most part be welcomed into Christian theology. God’s existence is neither self-evident nor purely a matter of faith. God is ‘the One who is’, as revealed to Moses at the burning bush. God is not a being of any kind. God is under no compulsion to create; the world is sheer gift. Creatures such as human beings are endowed with reason and free will, made in the divine image, are genuinely agents of their own moral achievements – and in no sense in competition with God.

This takes us to the Second Part of ST: ‘the movement of the rational creatures to God’, the moral life, as we may say, as a journey into sharing divine bliss.

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