Aquinas' Criticisms of the OA

Question 1

Who can know the true definition of God?

Answer 1

Only God himself, since humans are limited in their knowledge and can never understand God since he is transcendent.

Question 2

So therefore, what is the correct definition of God?

Answer 2

There isn’t a definition of God within human understanding of God’s nature; therefore, we cannot use the OA since the very definition that it is based on is not correct.

Question 3

So if we cant use the OA what should we use?

Answer 3

AQ believed that using a priori arguments was useless, we must base our arguments around our experiences of the effects of God’s work around us in nature, so we should use a posteriori arguments instead.