«Quidditas Dei est ipsum suum esse». La hermenéutica del tomismo en confrontación: Lawrence Dewan frente a Étienne Gilson

Abstract

In the present article the criticism that Lawrence Dewan made of Étienne Gilson about the formula quidditas Dei est ipsum suum esse is exposed, in which the Canadian thinker understands that the French medievalist has erred interpreting that Saint Thomas Aquinas deprives God of his essence. For both authors, authentic Thomism necessarily involves an adequate understanding of this formula in which being and essence, unlike entities, are the same. Through this study we will try to arrive at an answer about which explanation is closest to the metaphysics of Aquinate.