Quiz #2

According to Thomas, The Father is the _____ of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 

In what sense is the Father the “principle” of the Son?

How does Thomas distinguish between what is “common” and what is “proper” in the Godhead? 

According to Thomas, why is the Father alone considered the “principle without principle”?  

Aquinas believes that the simple divine essence is possessed indivisibly and equally by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but the Father is the principle from whom the essence originates. 

According to which conception may we speak of the tripersonal unity of essence as processionally reducible to the person of the Father in Thomas’s theology? 

According to Dr. Tipton, what seems to be the ultimate reason for Thomas Aquinas’s reduction of the unity of essence to the Father when envisioning the essence processionally?

In Thomas’s theology, the Son and the Holy Spirit are considered subordinate to the Father in terms of divinity.