LessonsDivine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and TimeQuiz

ولا محدود أي ذي حد ونهاية
Nor is He limited by a boundary or endpoint.

A limit in the physical sense marks the boundary of a body: an edge or surface beyond which that body’s extension does not continue. Thus a wall or vessel has a determinate boundary and dimensions.

Applying such a limit to God would place divine reality inside a circumscribed magnitude and raise the issue of why this boundary rather than another is assigned.

One should distinguish a logical definition, expressed using concepts such as genus and differentia, from a spatial boundary marking where a body ends. The immediate theological denial concerns creaturely spatial limitation and finitude.

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What a boundary or endpoint presupposes

Divine Transcendence: Form, Essence, Place and Time

ولا محدود أي ذي حد ونهاية
Nor is He limited by a boundary or endpoint.

A limit in the physical sense marks the boundary of a body: an edge or surface beyond which that body’s extension does not continue. Thus a wall or vessel has a determinate boundary and dimensions.

Applying such a limit to God would place divine reality inside a circumscribed magnitude and raise the issue of why this boundary rather than another is assigned.

One should distinguish a logical definition, expressed using concepts such as genus and differentia, from a spatial boundary marking where a body ends. The immediate theological denial concerns creaturely spatial limitation and finitude.