Table of Contents
              Foreword
              Preface 
	Abbreviations
Part One
God the Incomprehensible and Negative Theology
	1.	A Brief Survey of Negative Theology in the Hellenistic and Patristic Traditions
			I.  Authors before Pseudo-Dionysius     
		   II.  Pseudo-Dionysius and John Damascene   
	2.	God's Dual Incomprehensibility in Aquinas
			I.  God as Supereminent Darkness   
		   II.	Our Nonquidditative Knowledge of God     
				A.  No Intellect Sees God by its Natural Powers   
				B.  The Graced Vision of God's Essence   
				C.  Finite Intellectual Creatures and God's Infinity      
		  III.	Our Noncomprehensive Knowledge of God      
		 IV.	Conclusion   
	3.	Aquinas'  Via Negativa  
			I.  The Threefold Way to God        
		   II.	The Via Negativa      
				A.  Three Types of Negative Theology     
				B.  Growth and Progress of Negative Theology     
			    C.  Negation and Preeminence      
		  III.	The Way of Preeminence      
		 IV.	Conclusion   
Part Two
Analogy and the Web of Judgment
	4.	Analogy in Aristotle
	5.	The Various Meanings of Analogy in Aquinas
I.  Critique of Analogy
		   II.  Analogy as Proportion and Proportionality      
		  III.  Analogy as Referential Multivocity      
		 IV.  Analogy of Attribution, Proper Proportionality, and Cajetan's Interpretation      
		  V.  The Primacy of Analogy as Referential Multivocity   
		 VI.  The Logical Status of Multivocal Analogy   
	6.	The Unity and Diversity of Analogy as a Web of Predication
			I.  Primary and Secondary Meanings     
		   II.	Reference to an Individual Reality or Nature   
		  III.	God and Creatures      
		 IV.	The Analogical Community     
		  V.	Analogy's "Common Meaning" and "Different Meanings"   
	7.	Analogy as Judgment in Aquinas  
			I.  Judgment and Truth     
		   II.	Judgment and Concept       
		  III.	Analogy as Judgment      
				A.  Theological Analogy as the Mean between Univocity and Equivocity       
				B.  The Place of Theological Analogy in Aquinas' Treatise on God     
		  IV.	The Graced Judgment of Faith     
		   V.	Conclusion   
Part Three
Crucial Truths about God 
	8.	Aquinas and the Existence of God the Creator  
			I.  Aquinas' View of Aristotle's First Principles     
				A.  The Unmoved Mover of Aristotle's Physics   
			    B.  The Primary Substance of Aristotle's Metaphysics     
		   II.	The Richness of God's Existence in Aquinas' Theology     
		  III.	Aquinas and the Philosophers on God the Creator   
		 IV.	Creation and Creator      
		  V.	The World's Eternity      
		 VI.	God the Creator Philosophically Interpreted as Subsistent Being   
VII.	The Radical Contingence of Creatures Philosophically Interpreted as the                                                  
			    Real Distinction between Being and Essence    
	9.	Aquinas' Crucial Theological Truths 
			I.  God Is the Infinite, Pure and Perfect Act of Subsistent Being   
				A.  A Perfect God     
				B.  An Infinite God     
		   II.	God Is the Creator and Conserver of the Universe     
				A.  A Transcendent Creator     
				B.  An Immanent Creator   
				C.  A God Who Freely Creates from Nothing      
		  III.  	Creation is a Likeness to God   
				A.  Creatures Are Both Like and Unlike God      
				B.  God's Essence and God's Ideas     
				C.  Vestige, Image, Similarity   
		 IV.	Participation: Aquinas' Christian View of the Universe  
		  V.	Truth and Epistemology   
Part Four
The Divine Names
	10.	Aquinas' Positive Theology of the Divine Names  
			I.  Divine Names   
				A.  Theory of Names   
				B.  On Naming God   
		   II.	Aquinas' Positive Theology     
		  III.	Proper Name of Divinity   
		 IV.	Proper versus Metaphorical Predication     
		  V.	Taxonomy of the Divine Names   
		 VI.	Primacy and Dependence in Divine Predication   
		VII.	Different Meanings of the Divine Names   
	11.	The Distinction between the Reality Signified and the Manner of Signification
			I.  Historical Background   
		   II.	The Res/Modus Distinction in Aquinas     
				A.  God's Modelessness and the Creature's Finite Mode     
				B.  The Human Manner of Understanding   
				C.  The Human Manner of Signification     
		  III.	The Res/Modus Distinction and the Analogical Nature of Divine Predication    
	Conclusion: Speaking the Incomprehensible God
	Bibliography
               Indices
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274, God Knowableness History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500, Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) History of doctrines Middle Ages, 600-1500