... day. What distinguishes Plotinus is his insistence that this ultimate principle must be absolutely simple. It must lack any internal structure or dependence relations, anything that could differentiate one part of it from another. Virtually all classical theists ascribe aseity—having being...

... personhood divine Xenophanes aseity or independence of God free will human freedom divine sovereignty of God creative powers of God Plato Augustine deism ex nihilo creation miracles annihilation vs creation conservation God's power of evil problem of Quinn Philip L power of God absolute vs...

... concreta in that world to provide a perfect being’s possibility—conventionalism, conceptualism, “powers” theories, and other strategies. It contends that these all “cost” too much. It also argues that a perfect being would have aseity as an essential property. It points out various ways to understand...

...The flip side of this doctrine is divine aseity, or divine independence. Chapter 4 deals with this doctrine. Edwards's position is consistent with God's metaphysical independence of the creation. But there has been some recent dispute about whether Edwards can affirm that God is psychologically...

... is necessary and what is impossible. The whole Platonic realm is thus seen as deriving from God.” ⁶ The trick in effecting this rapprochement between realism and classical theism is to affirm the necessary existence and invariable nature of the Platonic realm while denying its aseity...

...The biblical and patristic witness to the doctrine of divine aseity and God’s status as the only uncreated (agenētos) being is expounded in detail through a careful exegesis of original texts. The Prologue of the Gospel of John reflects the intellectual heritage of Middle Platonism...

... of ontological commitment which lies at the heart of indispensability arguments. Beyond that the theist’s options are wide open for filling out his account with insights appropriated from a diversity of perspectives. absolute creationism anti realism aseity conceptualism God ontological assay properties...

... in space or time. Because of his eternity and immutability, God alone exists in an unqualified sense. Anselm goodness nature property aseity divine God ultimacy divine Predication essence essential properties eternity divine justice simplicity divine presentist Trinity foreknowledge divine...

... scripture Williams George Huntston Christ Athanasius 1 Corinthians economy of redemption creation subordination Galatians rule of faith regula fidei aseity John Calvin Pierre Caroli Guillaume Farel eternal generation Valentine Gentile Genevan Reformation trinitarian controversy tritheism...

... aseity John Calvin Calvinism classical trinitarianism essential communication eternal generation Lutheranism Nicene Post-Reformation Reformed In this chapter I move from the loose to the much stricter, more traditional trinitarian construals of the relationship between essential and relational...

... of Calvin's argument, and the heart of others' criticism, remained the same throughout: Calvin claimed that the only-begotten Son of the Father is also, as the one true God, ‘of himself’. This book investigates the various Reformation and post-Reformation responses to Calvin's affirmation of the Son's aseity...

... that the existence of God is the ultimate brute fact, causally contingent on nothing. An intermediate account is proposed, that God’s existence at any time is caused by God at a previous time (his aseity is his being caused by himself); and an account is given of how it could be that God is essentially backwardly...

... of traditional philosophical theology, namely, that God is a se. Of all the classical theologians, it was Aquinas who worked hardest at explaining how God’s aseity is compatible with God’s knowledge of “singulars.” After an extended discussion of Aquinas’s proposal, the conclusion is drawn...

...) Space and time are sustained by God. (4) All contingent facts depend on God for their being as they are. (5) All necessary truths are either not necessary for God or have their necessity conferred by God. God’s aseity entails that God’s being and God’s being as he is depend on nothing and that God...

... and did. On the basis of Quran and Hadith, different schools of Sharia emerged. Creator David design holiness Jesus Lord mercy Muhammad Muslim Ninety nine Beautiful Names prophets Psalms Quran revelation shahada al Dhat Allah aseity creation Din El Elohim essence faith Goddess...

...Anselm defends the ‘Principle of Alternative Possibilities’ with regard to created agency, although in his system it is aseity, self-causation, that is most important. His theory presents a response to Frankfurt-style counterexamples and offers a robust free will defence. Anselm holds...

...This chapter, on God and eternity, articulates the doctrine of divine timelessness and its systematic connections with divine immutability, simplicity, impassibility, aseity, and self-sufficiency. The chapter also looks at questions about eternal duration, and how to talk about timeless eternity...

...The attribute of divine aseity is defined. God alone is self-existent and therefore uncreated, the sole ultimate reality. Platonism’s challenge to the doctrine of divine aseity is introduced. Platonism posits the existence of uncreated abstract objects, so that God is not the sole ultimate reality...

... Gisbertus Reformed minority report essential communication hypostasis Lombard Peter ontology origination personal Röell Herman Alexander revelation 1 Peter Horton Michael S Exodus Romans 2 Timothy Genesis Ephesians Christ aseity autotheos Calvin canon grammar ontology Reformed rule...

... in unique and ordered subsistences, and manner of willing and working. The chapter takes its structure from theologian John Webster's characterization of divine aseity, that ‘God is from himself, and from himself God gives himself’. It is divided into discussions of the immanent Trinity...