Human knowledge of the divine nature according to Saint Thomas

Abstract

This writing corresponds to the lecture given by its author on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Studium. It deals with Saint Thomas’ position on the possibility and limits of human knowledge of the divine nature. It covers the basic texts of Aquinas on the subject, beginning by affirming the possibility of knowing the divine
nature from the study of creatures and the perfections found in them. The analogical character of the knowledge of the divine nature is emphasized, because every property that our intellect wants to attribute
to God is taken from its effects, in which it is found in a participated form. Hence the error of any univocist or purely equivocal position on this question.