GAVEN KERR. Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation

Introduction:

Some time ago Gaven Kerr, an Irish Dominican Tertiary, published an admirable work on the proof of God’s existence as formulated in De ente et essentia, the early work of Thomas Aquinas (cf. Aquinas’s way to God. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Although little studied, this proof is perhaps one of the most solid metaphysically speaking, since it is based on the real composition of being and essence in every finite entity to go back by way of causality (and participation) to a first absolutely uncaused agent, that is to say , al esse subsistens.