Does God Exist? The Vertical Cosmological Argument

Here is an outline and exposition of what is often called the “Vertical Cosomological Argument” based on Thomas Aquinas’ thoughts in On Being and Essence. Outline A contingent being exists. Say, me – or the one who says nothing exists. 🙂 This contingent being must have a cause of its existence that is something other than the…

Citing the Summa Theologiæ of St. Thomas Aquinas

Having struggled with this issue for some time, I thought I would attempt to get a final answer as to how Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiæ* is to be cited in academic writing. What I discovered is that there seems to be no authoritative answer. This does not mean, however, that there are no wrong ways…