Thomas Aquinas

The works of St. Thomas Aquinas the medieval Christian philosopher are a corner stone of Christian Theology. With access to the recently recovered writings of Aristotle, Aquinas revolutionized Christian thinking with his Aristotelian arguments for God’s existence. Aquinas’s five arguments for proving God’s existence, though somewhat outdated by today’s knowledge of modern physics, remain valid, and applicable. The five arguments are as follows:
1) The Argument from Motion.
2) The Argument from Efficient Causality.
3) The Argument from Possibility and Necessity.
4) The Argument from Grades of Goodness in Things, and
5) The Argument from the Governance of the World.
Of the five arguments put forward by Aquinas, the argument from governance of the world is the strongest. In this argument Aquinas states that God is the being “by whom all natural things are directed to their end” (Melchert 282). This is a strong argument in support of god’s exis...