Athanasius and the Knowedge via the Names of God

Like Athanasius, the Cappadocian fathers and Augustine, Aquinas predicates the doctrine of the eternal generation ofthe Son primarily on the revealed names, Father and Son, which he believes imply an eternal act of divine generation.

 

Kevin Giles, The Eternal Generation of the Son: Maintaining Orthodoxy in Trinitarian Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 5