inclined towards God in all their inclinations towards good (Summa theologiae I 60, 5 ad 1; I.II 109, 3). Aquinas summarizes his account of God’s creating causality as follows: Since God is the efficient, exemplar, and final cause of all things, and prime matter, materia prima, is also from God, it follows that the first principle of all things is itself one. (Summa theologiae I 44, 4 ad 4) Aquinas’s view is not, then, deistic. God is not alongside the world or against the world. God is not the world’s