Aquinas and Hawking’s ‘Grand Design’

Professor William Carroll, Aquinas Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, has written a reflection on one point in Professor Stephen Hawking’s recent book The Grand Design. Professor Carroll explains what Aquinas’s understanding of creation involves and how he developed it in relation to Aristotle’s conviction that the universe does not have a beginning in time. It is one aspect of Aquinas’s thought that remains remarkably relevant to current debates. Professor Carroll’s piece shows also how theological conviction demands good philosophy, and philosophy is now as much under attack from science as theology is. Carroll’s piece can be found here.