LessonsDivine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and TimeQuiz

An objection arises from an indivisible atom: it may be described as occupying a region without meeting every requirement that some definitions of place impose upon a larger body. How, then, do occupation and location relate?

The reply distinguishes technical usage: some definitions make spatial occupation broader than place, so one can be conceived without the other in a specified sense.

This does not establish spatial occupation for God. The atom itself belongs to discussion of creaturely body and region; the necessary being is excluded from those physical limitations and relations.

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The objection from an unlocated atom

Divine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and Time

An objection arises from an indivisible atom: it may be described as occupying a region without meeting every requirement that some definitions of place impose upon a larger body. How, then, do occupation and location relate?

The reply distinguishes technical usage: some definitions make spatial occupation broader than place, so one can be conceived without the other in a specified sense.

This does not establish spatial occupation for God. The atom itself belongs to discussion of creaturely body and region; the necessary being is excluded from those physical limitations and relations.