Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann

Co-Authors The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas as well as Philosophical and Religious Articles and Books

"It is just because no event can be past with respect to an eternal entity that an eternal entity cannot alter a past event. An omnipotent, omniscient, eternal entity can affect temporal events, but it can affect events only as they are actually occurring."

"Simplicity offers advantages for constructive rational theology… [yet] it seems outrageously counter-intuitive, or even incoherent."