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If Love was Necessary. A Few Words on the Necessity of Love and the Freedom of God in the Act of Creation in St. Thomas Aquinas

Summary/Abstract: Artur Lovejoy in his article The Duality of Thomistic Theology: A Reply to Mr. Veatch (1947) states that in the teachings of St. Thomas there is a radical contradiction, which is contained in the fact that the existence of the world is both necessary and contingent, that is, at the same time it is implied in the nature of the divine goodness, will and love, and it is not. This raises the question of the possibility of the fact of a free creation, especially when Aquinas also maintains that God wills things in a necessary way. In response to this accusation, we will present the outline of Aquinas’s teaching on God’s freedom in the act of creation, which is God’s relationship with the creature in the dimension of non-dependent, lovingly free dependence.

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