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THIS question is divided into two parts of four
questions each. The first part, including the first four
questions, is a search for the real definition of
creation. It begins with the nominal definition of
creation and considers 1. the terminus a quo, namely,
nothing; 2. the efficient cause, that is, whether God
can create; 3. the formal cause of creation, or what is
meant by creation as considered passively in creatures;
4. the terminus ad quem, or whether creation is proper
to composites.
The second part of the question determines the conditions
of creation on the part of the efficient cause. The fifth
article asks whether God alone can create and studies the
doctrine proposed in the second article; the sixth article
asks whether creation is proper to the Father or common to
the Trinity. The seventh and eighth articles treat of
the conditions of creation on the part of the effect, that
is, whether a vestige of the Trinity is found in
creatures (art. 7), and whether there is a mixture of
creation in the works of nature (art. 8).
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