LessonsDivine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and NamingQuiz

تعدد الاعتبارات لا يستلزم كثرة في الذات
A plurality of conceptual considerations does not imply a plurality in the essence.

Different true questions can be asked about one reality: what does it know, what can it do, and what does it will? A distinction among these relations or objects is not evidence for several independent divine beings.

An attribute is not treated as a second self-subsisting deity. Conversely, conceptual distinction should not erase the actual affirmation of the attributes and reduce all descriptions to empty words. Classical theology seeks to maintain both real divine perfections and divine unity.

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Many conceptual aspects do not create many gods

Divine Names and Attributes: Affirmation, Transcendence and Naming

تعدد الاعتبارات لا يستلزم كثرة في الذات
A plurality of conceptual considerations does not imply a plurality in the essence.

Different true questions can be asked about one reality: what does it know, what can it do, and what does it will? A distinction among these relations or objects is not evidence for several independent divine beings.

An attribute is not treated as a second self-subsisting deity. Conversely, conceptual distinction should not erase the actual affirmation of the attributes and reduce all descriptions to empty words. Classical theology seeks to maintain both real divine perfections and divine unity.