LessonsThe Universality of Divine Knowledge and Power: Classical ObjectionsQuiz

Divine knowledge encompasses universals and particulars, stable and changing events, and hidden as well as apparent realities; change in the known does not entail origination in divine knowledge. Divine power concerns all intrinsic possibilities; multiplicity of effects does not demand multiple independent creators.

Creation is not the same as possessing a creature's blameworthy attribute or morally approving its act. Nor need human acquisition mean independent creation.

The thread of the argument is preserved by separating knowledge, power, will, moral evaluation and creaturely agency. The next unit turns to the eternity and subsistence of divine attributes.

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The resulting theological thesis

The Universality of Divine Knowledge and Power: Classical Objections

Divine knowledge encompasses universals and particulars, stable and changing events, and hidden as well as apparent realities; change in the known does not entail origination in divine knowledge. Divine power concerns all intrinsic possibilities; multiplicity of effects does not demand multiple independent creators.

Creation is not the same as possessing a creature's blameworthy attribute or morally approving its act. Nor need human acquisition mean independent creation.

The thread of the argument is preserved by separating knowledge, power, will, moral evaluation and creaturely agency. The next unit turns to the eternity and subsistence of divine attributes.