Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 In physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight'), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, which may be described as the force that draws material objects toward each other. God caused the gravitational attraction between clouds of primordial hydrogen and clumps of dark matter in...
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 Whether "one" adds anything to "being"? Dionysius says (Div. Nom. 5, ult.): "Nothing which exists is not in some way one," which would be false if "one" were an addition to "being," in the sense of limiting it. Therefore "one" is not an addition to "being." I answer that,...
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 Section 1. Procession in God. From God, God proceeds. In relation to God, there is procession. Since procession always supposes action, and as there is an outward procession corresponding to the act tending to external matter, so there must be an inward procession corresponding to the act remaining within...
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 Section 1. Definition of Eternity. Eternity is the simultaneously whole and perfect possession of interminable life. As we attain to the knowledge of simple things by way of compound things, so must we reach to the knowledge of eternity by means of time, which is nothing but the numbering...
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 Section 1. Immutability of God. (a) In General. God does not change. God is altogether immutable. (b) Potentiality; Lack. First, because there is some first being, whom we call God; and this first being must be pure act, without the admixture of any potentiality, for the reason that, absolutely,...
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 Section 1. Omnipresence of God. (a) In General. God is omnipresent; He operates in all things; He has wrought all our works in us. (b) Agentic Omnipresence. God is in all things; not, indeed, as part of their essence, nor as an accident, but as an agent is present...
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 Providence is the type of things ordered to their end preexisting in the divine mind; government is the execution of providence by directing things to their end, or to their proximate ends and through these to the ultimate end. Therefore it is the action by which God carries out...
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 God cooperates physically and immediately with acting creatures.
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 The world is conserved positively, directly, immediately in its being by God.
Introduced by Founding Fatherdillonbcarey§1 The ultimate end of God in creating the world is the communication and glorification of the divine goodness; the ultimate end of the work or world is the participation and glorification of the divine goodness.
