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A Digest of the Doctrine of S. Thomas on the Incarnation
A Digest of the Doctrine of S Thomas on the Incarnation Author:Thomas General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Original Publisher: J.T. Hayes Description: Translation of selections from pars 3 of: Summa theologica. Subjects: Incarnation Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the Gen... more »eral Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE [gslerg 0f % Jnxariraiinn. I. The nature of God is the essence of goodness, and it belongs to the idea of goodness that it seek to communicate itself to others, and to the idea of the highest good that it communicate itself in the highest possible manner -- hence the Incarnation. II. By it the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made : His goodness in that He despised not the infirmity of the work of His hands; His justice in that the tyrant who had conquered man should by man be conquered; His wisdom in devising, and His infinite power in accomplishing, the mystery -- than which there is none greater -- that God should be made man. III. God could, by virtue of His Omnipotent power, have restored mankind in many otherways, but that of the Incarnation was the best, and the best suited to its end, the attainment by ns of everlasting salvation, as affording us : 1. ; An object of faith; 2. A ground of hope; 3. . An incentive to charity; 4. An example; and / 5. A means in order to a full participation of / divinity, which is the true beatitude of man, and the end of human life: as S. Augustine says, " God was made man that man might be made God." Similarly with regard to the removal of evil: 1. Man is by the Incarnation taught the exceeding dignity of human nature, and so prevented from defiling it by sin. (2y Not to presume, seeing the grace of God is given to no preceding merit of our own. 3. Man'...« less