What are divine ideas?

God has in his mind ideas of the things he makes. He is the grand architect. Did you know that some of these ideas in the mind of God can also be exemplar causes of the very things he chooses to make? A Thomist with a bow tie, Gregory Doolan, sits down with Matthew Barrett to discuss why divine ideas are critical to properly understanding the doctrine of God and the Christian doctrine of creation. 

Gregory Doolan is a professor of Thomistic Metaphysics at the Catholic University of America and the author of Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes.