What this domain studies
- Arguments from motion, causality, contingency, grades, and governance.
- Divine simplicity, perfection, goodness, infinity, and immutability.
- Creation, providence, and creaturely participation.
- Analogical language about God.
First cause and pure act
God
Finite being points to God as pure act, first cause, subsistent being, and creator.
This domain studies natural theology, divine names, simplicity, perfection, goodness, providence, and creation. It shows why Thomism reasons to God from finite being without reducing God to one being among others.