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Talking About God – Brian Davies

Professor Brian Davies In our last post Professor Davies was discussing verification and falsification as it pertained to God. After disposing of a few arguments he asked, well, if we are to speak of...

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Aquinas on Being Human – Dr. Brian Davies, O.P.

The window above from the former Dominican priory chapel at Hawkesyard depicts the link between the Annunciation, the Cross and the Trinitarian life. Brian Davies says in his book The Thought of...

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Aquinas Proves Atheists Are Closer To God Than They Think

A Rublev Icon I was zipping about the web recently and came across this little piece written back in 2007 by Brian Davies. I’ve been reading a lot of his stuff recently and preparing several pieces...

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Simplicity — Brian Davies

Aquinas denies that God and his nature can be thought of as distinct. It is very important to bear all of this in mind if one’s aim is to understand Aquinas on simplicity, for what his teaching amounts...

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Objections To Simplicity 2 – Brian Davies

Many of the dissenters here deny that God is simple in the sense that Aquinas thinks that he is. Why so? Could it he that they are mesmerized by the formula “God is a person”? I suspect that many of...

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