Appendix 3: God, Angels, and Humans
APPENDIX 3: GOD, ANGELS, AND HUMANS
God
Angels
Humans
Mode of Being
Uncaused
Caused
Caused
Esse
Pure Act
Complete Act
Progressive Act
Duration
Without Potency
With Completed
With Uncompleted
Potency
Potency
Change
None
Substantial Change
Substantial and
Only
Accidental Change
(Material) What Permanent but
Permanent but
Temporal,
Is Measured Uncreated Being
Created Being
Changing, Created
Being
(Formal) How
By Unity and
By Unity and
By Plurality and
Measured
Reason
Reason
Number
Before/After
No Before or After
No "Before and
Before and After
After" but Can Be
Joined to It
Nature/Will
Not Changeable in
Not Changeable in
Changeable in
Nature or Will
Nature, but Changeable in Will
Nature, Will, Place, etc.
Relation to
Cannot Be Joined
Not Changing but
Changeable by
Change
to Change by
Can Be Joined to It
Nature
Nature