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As we have discussed before, this is not the Catholic view and especially not Aquinas’ view of the relationship between God and Nature. This is beautifully illustrated in Aquinas’ so-called fifth way” of arguing for God’s existence from the Summa Theologiae, especially in comparison to some modern arguments for God linked to modern science. Recent Videos The Trinity and Baptism Why do Christians baptize in the name of the Trinity? Or to put it another way: Does it really matter what you SAY at a baptism? The answer is: yes – in fact, it makes all the difference in the world! Why is that? What is the connection between Baptism and the Trinity? Recent Videos Can Catholics believe in astrology? #AskAFriar Is astrology ever good or noble? If not, why were some saints like St. Albert the Great interested in it in ages past? Big questions like these have been popping up in the comment boxes of our videos since the start of our very first season. In this video series with Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P., we will attempt to provide some answers. Recent Videos What is God’s Role in Ordering the Physical World? Universal patterns or Laws” of nature have become so familiar to us that we often treat them as obvious and self-evident, which makes Aquinas’ claim that the regularity of natural activity demands some intelligent being – expressed in his Fifth way” and elsewhere – sound antiquated and strange. Ultimately though, this intuition of Aquinas does not reveal some naivete of his about the order of nature. More properly, it reveals our own blindness to how much we take the natural scientific order for granted. WELCOME TO AQUINAS 101! is a project of the Thomistic Institute that seeks to promote Catholic truth and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas through short, engaging video lessons. 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The entire work is really an extended meditation on the presence of God, but one of the greatest questions of all times is whether God exists, and Thomas takes the question head on with his famous five ways or five proofs for the existence of God. Most Popular Videos The Natural Law Aquinas teaches that God has imprinted in creatures their inclinations to their proper acts and ends in accordance with God's eternal plan. And likewise, that He's imprinted these inclinations in human beings in a higher way, in virtue of our spiritual nature. Aquinas famously claims that the precepts of the natural law follow the order of our natural inclinations. Most Popular Videos Being and Metaphysics Metaphysics is the study of the science of being, of that which exists, in so far as it exists. You might say that metaphysics is a structured way of thinking about the most fundamental explanations of the world that we encounter. 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