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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
Anthony Kenny concludes The God of the Philosophers by saying that ‘If the argument of the previous chapters has been correct then there is no such being as the God of traditional natural theology … There cannot, if our argument has been sound, be a timeless, immutable, omniscient, omnipotent all-good being’ (p. 121). According to Kenny
1 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
2 This argument has been used by Kenny, before. See ‘Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom’ in Aquinas: A Collection of Critical Essays (London: Macmillan, 1969).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3 Cf., Geach, Providence and Evil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 57.Google Scholar
4 Summa Theologiae, Ia, IO, 3 ad 3. All quotations from the Summa Theologiae used here come from Volume 2 of the Blackfriars edition (London and New York, 1964).
5 Summa Theologiae, Ia, IO, I; Ia, IO, 2; Ia, IO, 4.
6 Summa Contra Gentiles I, 15. The translations is that of the edition of the Contra Gentiles translated by Anton C., Pegis (New York: Doubleday, 1955).Google Scholar
7 The Silence of Saint Thomas (Logos Books: Chicago, 1966), 47.
8 In Peri Hermeneias I, XIV, 197.
9 Cf. Summa Theologiae, Ia, 3.
10 In Peri Hermeneias I, XIV, 195.
11 ‘Omniscience and Immutability’, Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966), 409-421.
12 ‘Omniscience and Indexical Reference’, Journal of Philosophy 64 (1967), 203-210.
13 Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
14 Philosophy 37 (1962), 114-129.
15 Liberi Arbitrii cum Gratiae Donis … Concordia, G., Rabenek(ed.) (Madrid, 1953), 14, 13, d2 n3. Cf. Kenny, 1979, 61.Google Scholar
16 Reprinted in Truth And Other Enigmas (Duckworth: London, 1978).
17 De Doctrina Christiana (New Haven, 1933), 33. Cf. Kenny, 1979, 81.
18 Cf. Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ia, 13.
