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  • Question 16 - Of Truth

  • J. Budziszewski, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on the One God
    Published online:
    23 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 237-250

  • Summary

    Doubtless many readers take the saying that God is truth in a merely figurative sense, as a dramatic way to emphasize that He loves truth, reveals truth, and loves those who live according to His truth and are truthful themselves. All of those claims are made in Scripture too. But could the statement that God simply is truth be meant literally? We should not carelessly dismiss the possibility, for by this point in the Treatise on the One God many other startling things about God have already proven to be the case. St. Thomas investigates whether this is another.