God in the Summa theologiae
entity or event?
pp. 63-79
in: Jeremiah Hackett, Jerald Wallulis (eds), Philosophy of religion for a new century, Berlin, Springer, 2004Abstract
Whatever they say about "classical" theism, the "traditional" Christian doctrine of God, as hopelessly contaminated by 'substantialist metaphysics", I want to offer a quick re-reading which suggests that the risk Thomas Aquinas runs is not thinking of God as a static entity but rather of God as a radically dynamic event.
