Question 45 — Creation

The next question concerns the mode of the emanation of things from the First Principle, and this is called creation, and includes eight points of inquiry:

(1) What is creation?

• (2) Whether God can create anything?
• (3) Whether creation is anything in the very nature of things?
• (4) To what things it belongs to be created?
• (5) Whether it belongs to God alone to create?
• (6) Whether creation is common to the whole Trinity, or proper to any one Person?
• (7) Whether any trace of the Trinity is to be found in created things?
• (8) Whether the work of creation is mingled with the works of nature and of the will?