St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274(5)) was an Eclectic, Aristotelian, and a Christian. His teacher was Albert Magnus, also known as “Albert the Great”. St. Thomas wrote two major works, the Summa Theologica and Suma Contra Gentiles. In the Summa Theologica he had perhaps his most famous single work, his proofs for the existence of God. These were knows as the “Five Ways”. These were: 1. The fact of change proves an ultimate agent of change. 2. The chain …showed first 75 words of 1903 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1903 total…designer. Criticism, which can be applied to this way, is that God is the designer of nature. Therefore, all negative aspects of nature and society are due to God. If this is true, God is not truly God in that he is not merciful and watchful. However, these are qualities befitting a God, if “real” God does not have them but the “theoretical” God does, could it be possible there is no God. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**