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Beyond Aristotle … and Beyond Newton: Thomas Aquinas on an Infinite Creation

W HAT WAS St. Thomas Aquinas's final word on the possibility of an infinite creation? According to him creation as we have it is not infinite. But could it be? Or could any part of it be? That is, if the Creator so willed, could he create an entity or multitude that would be infinite and have its infinity not successively but simultaneously? Thomas's answer may surprise those who are not particularly well versed in the history of medieval philosophy-and some who are. Still, all are likely to be intrigued by his going beyond what would later be Isaac Newton's view of a three-dimensional world, yet adhering increasingly to the Aristotelian Weltanschauung of a "formful" cosmos. By the end we shall see that, late in his career,