Aquinas and atheism

In Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse, The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. Oxford University Press UK. pp. 119 (2013)
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This essay aims to explain what Aquinas does and does not mean when using the word ‘God’. It also tries to explain why Aquinas thinks it reasonable to conclude that God exists and how Aquinas can be compared and contrasted with certain thinkers both agreeing and disagreeing with this conclusion. The essay places emphasis on Aquinas’s notion of esse and on the fact that he consistently asserts that we do not know what God is.

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