The Trinity and God the Creator

Description: In his motu proprio, Doctoris Angelici, of June 29, 1914, Pope Pius X commanded that the universities and institutions of learning which were empowered to grant academic degrees and the doctorate in sacred theology should use the Summa theologica of St. Thomas as their text. On March 7, 1916, the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities interpreted this decree as follows: "The Summa theologica of St. Thomas must be accepted as the text for the lectures inasmuch as they treat of the scholastic part of the questions. The method to be followed is this: the is to be consulted frequently and explained together with some other text which presents the logical order of the questions and the positive teaching" (Acta Apost. Sedis, VIII, 157). To meet this demand, we have already published three treatises: De revelatione ab Ecclesia proposita, De Deo uno, De Eucharistia. The first part of this present work treats of the Trinity. After presenting the testimony of the Scriptures and the Fathers, we explain the questions in St. Thomas' Summa theologica, article by article, comparing his doctrine with the teaching of earlier and later theologians. We have laid great stress on St. Thomas' concept of relation because from it flow all the other conclusions in this treatise, and these conclusions will appear to be in accord with the fundamental thesis of the Thomistic treatise on the one God which establishes that God is self-subsisting Being and that consequently there is but one nature in Him although the real relations in God are really distinct from one another. In this way we shall show how St. Thomas perfected St. Augustine's teaching on the Trinity. As St. Augustine solved many difficulties remaining in the doctrine of the Greek Fathers on the Trinity, so St. Thomas explained many of St. Augustine's doubts about the processions, relations, and persons. This will become abundantly clear as we proceed to the different parts of the present treatise. We shall give particular attention to the indwelling of the Holy Trinity in the souls of the just.

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