Subject Index
Subject Index
Academic Skepticism,
allegorical interpretation of Scripture,
analogy of being,
analogy of faith,
analytic philosophy,
angels,
Anselm
Monologion,
Proslogion,
Anselmian argument,
Apostles’ Creed,
apostolic poverty,
argument from design,
Aristotelian philosophical terms,
Aristotle
Metaphysics,
Nicomachean Ethics,
Physics
astrology,
atheism,
Augustine
favored demonstration for God’s existence,
triad of remembering, understanding, and loving,
beatific vision,
biblical background of the proofs,
Big Bang,
Blondel, Maurice
action,
willed will,
willing will,
burning bush,
Calvin, John
Institutes of the Christian Religion,
Catholic Church,
causality
accidentally ordered series of causes,
efficient cause,
essentially ordered series of causes,
final cause,
formal cause,
instrumental cause,
intermediate cause,
material cause,
principle of,
Christ. See Jesus Christ
contingency of created things,
cosmological proof,
cosmological proof (Kant),
cosmos,
caused by chance,
as eternal,
as ordered,
spontaneous creation of,
Council of Constantinople,
creatio ex nihilo,
critical idealism,
cross of Christ,
De Auxiliis controversy,
“death of God” theology,
degrees of perfection, demonstration from,
deism,
demiurge,
demons,
Descartes, René
clear and distinct ideas,
“I think, therefore I am,”
desire for God,
Deus absconditus,
Donatism,
efficient causality, demonstration from,
Empiricism,
Enlightenment,
Epicureanism,
essence vs. esse,
Eucharist,
evil, problem of,
existence as such,
Fall, the,
first cause. See God: as first cause
First Vatican Council
Dei Filius,
five ways. See Thomas Aquinas: five ways
free will,
God
as absolute being,
as cause,
as creator,
as eternal,
as first cause,
as God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,
goodness of,
as I am,
as immaterial,
as immutable,
as incomprehensible,
as infinite,
as life itself,
justice of,
as material,
as omnipotent,
as omniscient,
simplicity of,
as transcendent,
as truth,
unity of,
wisdom of,
grace,
gravity, law of,
happiness, natural desire for,
Hegelian idealism,
Heidegger, Martin
Dasein,
ontology, loss of genuine,
Hellenistic background of the proofs,
Hellenistic philosophy,
Holy Spirit,
Hume, David
on cause-effect relation,
proportionate cause,
Hypsistarii,
iconoclasm,
identity, principle of,
image of God,
immortality of the soul,
nnate knowledge of God’s existence,
Islam,
Jesus Christ,
divinity of,
incarnation of,
as Messiah,
resurrection of,
salvific knowledge of,
as Son,
as Word of God,
Kalam Cosmological Argument,
Kant, Immanuel
on causality,
“cosmological” proof,
critical idealism,
duty, importance of,
God as postulate of practical reason,
immortality of the soul as postulate of practical reason,
noumenal, the,
“ontological” proof,
phenomenal, the,
“physico-theological” proof,
practical reason,
pure concepts,
pure reason,
Leibniz, Gottfried
sufficient reason,
liberalism, theological,
Liber de causis,
Logos,
Manichaenism,
materialism,
matter and form,
metaphysics,
Christian,
microcosm,
Modernism,
Modernist controversy,
Monothelitism,
moral consequentialism,
Mosaic Law,
motion (change), demonstration from,
natural knowledge of God,
natural religion. See natural theology
natural theology,
necessary being,
Neoplatonism,
neo-Thomism,
Newman, John Henry
on causality,
experience of conscience, as evidence for God’s existence,
illative sense,
nihilism,
noncontradiction, principle of,
nouvelle théologie,
objects of knowledge
formal,
material,
omniscience,
ontologists,
ontotheology,
original sin,
Oxford Movement,
pantheism,
Pascal’s wager,
Pascendi Dominici Gregis (encyclical),
Pelagianism,
Plato
Good as cause,
ideas/forms,
Parmenides,
Phaedo,
Republic,
Timaeus,
Plotinus
Enneads,
polytheism,
potency. See act/potency
predestination,
prime matter,
prime mover. See unmoved mover
Protestant Reformation,
providence,
Pure Act,
Pyrrhonism. See Academic Skepticism
quantum law,
rationalism,
Reformation. See Protestant Reformation
Reformed Church,
Renaissance humanism,
Rousselot, Pierre
“being exists,”
concrete being,
faith,
natural vs. supernatural,
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
feeling of absolute dependence,
Second Vatican Council,
Nostra Aetate,
Sinai,
Skepticism. See Academic Skepticism
Son of God. See Jesus Christ
Stoicism,
strict demonstration,
teleological order, demonstration from,
Thomas Aquinas
five ways,
first way,
second way,
third way,
fourth way,
fifth way,
On Being and Essence,
twofold truth,
Torah. See Mosaic law
tradition
atheistic,
Christian,
Hindu,
transcendental Thomism,
Trinity,
universe. See cosmos
univocity of being,
unmoved mover,
via negativa,
vision of God. See beatific vision
voluntarism,
Wisdom of Solomon, ,
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
on cause-effect relation,
language games,
world. See cosmos
world-soul,