Aquinas's own Five Ways conclude only to a first mover and necessary being, requiring the Summa Theologiae's subsequent treatise De Deo Uno to supply the theistic attributes through separate argumentation.
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Different, independent logical arguments—meaning Aquinas had to use additional reasoning beyond the Five Ways to explain what God is like.
Summa Theologiae(as a reference to a specific text)
Aquinas's massive written work that systematically explains Christian beliefs and arguments—basically his attempt to answer major theological and philosophical questions.
Theistic attributes(what the De Deo Uno section explains)
The qualities or characteristics believed to describe God, such as being all-powerful, all-knowing, eternal, and perfect.
first mover(Used in Cordemoy's cosmological argument for an infinite will as the origin of motion in the world.)
The ultimate source of motion; that which initiates motion without receiving motion from anything else.
necessary being(Theistic metaphysics)
A being that exists and is God in every possible world