THE COGNOSCIBILITY OF GOD FOR THOMAS AQUINAS AND IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
THE COGNOSCIBILITY OF GOD FOR THOMAS AQUINAS AND IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: The cognoscibility of God has been and is being investigated and explained in different ways either by philosophy or by theology. If the first branch of knowledge sought to include the existence of God and His knowledge in the sphere of rational explanations, and afterwards the Roman-Catholic theology through its prominent representatives such as Thomas Aquinas, took up mostly philosophical ideas, such as those from Aristotle’s Metaphysics, however they could not encompass God, who in His infinity transcends all rationality, in specific definitions of the rational world. Orthodox theology brought forth a form of knowledge full of meaning that goes beyond the rational, that rises through what is rational to what we call supra-rational.

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