20: What are the 8 attributes of God?
St Thomas Aquinas, in the first part of his Summa Theologica, after having enumerated five proofs for the existence of God, proceeds to outline and explicate his attributes, of which Thomas says He has eight:
1) Simplicity, 2) perfection, 3) goodness, 4) infinity, 5) ubiquity, 6) immutability, 7) eternity, and 8) unity.
This is the order in which he deals with them and I thought I would provide a quick summary of each in the same order for those that are interested.
To read what Thomas himself says, start here in the Summa.
1. THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD. The Simplicity of God means that God has no…
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