Summa: Question 3 Exam

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When we speak of God's simplicity we speak of the fact that God is not composed of parts, or compounded of elements.

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In God there is no passive potentiality at all; God is pure actuality.

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In God there is no composition of matter and form.

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God is his own existence

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God is composed of substance and accidentals.

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An apple is a substance.

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God is not a part or element of anything else.

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God's absolute simplicity in being and essence conflicts with the subsistence of the simple divine essence in the three distinct Persons of the Blessed Trinity.

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When something is not composed of parts, we call that thing:

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A body is subject to:

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If God is the unmoved First-Mover, then he is not subject to:

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God is pure .

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A body is always in the state of potentiality, that is:

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A body is:

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In God there is:

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The element common to all bodies and the element by which a body is bodily is:

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All bodies are composed of:

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The substantial determinant in each body which makes it an existing body of its essential kind is called:

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A body its nature or working essence. God does not anything.

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A body is always composed of an essence or nature concreted in:

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God is his own nature.

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Why does God not -have- anything?

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There is no being prior to the .

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Creatures, bodily or spiritual, are composed of and .

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receives existence.

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is received by essence to make an existing creature.

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Since God is the First Being, there is nothing to him from which his essence could receive existence.

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God does not receive anything of his being.

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It is God's essence to exist.

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In God, and are absolutely one and the same.

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God is a compound of essence and existence.

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The general essential class of things to which a creature belongs is its:

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We understand an organism as belonging to the general class of , and as marked off from body-as-such by the fact that it has .

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We understand and define a creature by:

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In God there is no composition or compounding of genus and difference.

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The special difference by which a creature is essentially distinguished from other members of its class is:

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A is a reality that is naturally suited to exist as itself, and not as the mark or determinant of some other thing.

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An is a reality that is suited to exist as of something other than itself.

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The fact that an apple is red is part of that apple's substance.

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The color of an apple is to the substance of the apple.

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A creatural substance is said to be composed of and inhering .

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A creatural substance has . In God there are no at all.

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All that God has, God is.

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God is not composed of parts of elements of any kind. God is absolutely .

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Complete the Exam for Question 3 of the Summa: The simplicity of God This Exam covers all of the articles under Question 3.

Summa: Question 3 Exam

Summa: Question 3 Exam

When we speak of God's simplicity we speak of the fact that God is not composed of parts, or compounded of elements.

In God there is no passive potentiality at all; God is pure actuality.

In God there is no composition of matter and form.

God is his own existence

God is composed of substance and accidentals.

An apple is a substance.

God is not a part or element of anything else.

God's absolute simplicity in being and essence conflicts with the subsistence of the simple divine essence in the three distinct Persons of the Blessed Trinity.

When something is not composed of parts, we call that thing:

A body is subject to:

If God is the unmoved First-Mover, then he is not subject to:

God is pure .

A body is always in the state of potentiality, that is:

A body is:

In God there is:

The element common to all bodies and the element by which a body is bodily is:

All bodies are composed of:

The substantial determinant in each body which makes it an existing body of its essential kind is called:

A body its nature or working essence. God does not anything.