The Attributes & Qualities Of God

[MorphRC]

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[font="Times"][b][color=gray]The Attributes & Qualities of God[/color][/font][/b]
[b]Official Dogma's of the Catholic Church[/b]

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[b]The following list of attributes are from the Official Dogma's of the Catholic Church:[/b] Extracted from "[i]Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma[/i]" by Dr Ludwig Ott; [i]Tan Books and Publishers[/i], Inc. 1974.

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[b]1:[/b] [b]The Attributes or Qualities of God[/b]
[b]2:[/b] [b]The Attributes of God in General[/b]

[b]3:[/b] The Divine Attributes are really identical among themselves and with the Divine Essence. (De fide.)

[b]The Attributes of the Divine Being[/b]

[b]4:[/b] God is absolutely perfect. (De fide.)
[b]5:[/b] God is actually infinite in every perfection. (De fide.)
[b]6:[/b] God is absolutely simple. (De fide.)
[b]7:[/b] There is only One God. (De fide.)
[b]8:[/b] The One God is, in the ontological sense, The True God. (De fide.)
[b]9:[/b] God possesses an infinite power of cognition. (De fide.)
[b]10:[/b] God is absolute Veracity. (De fide.)
[b]11:[/b] God is absolutely faithful. (De fide.)
[b]12:[/b] God is absolute ontological Goodness in Himself and in relation to others. (De fide.)
[b]13:[/b] God is absolute Moral Goodness or Holiness. (De fide.) D 1782.
[b]14:[/b] God is absolute Benignity. (De fide.) D1782.
[b]15:[/b] God is absolute Beauty. D1782.
[b]16:[/b] God is absolutely immutable. (De fide.)
[b]17:[/b] God is eternal. (De fide.)
[b]18:[/b] God is immense or absolutely immeasurable. (De fide.)
[b]19:[/b] God is everywhere present in created space. (De fide.)

[b]The Attributes of the Divine Life[/b]

[b]20:[/b] God's knowledge is infinite. (De fide.)
[b]21:[/b] God's knowledge is purely and simply actual.
[b]22:[/b] God's knowledge is subsistent
[b]23:[/b] God's knowledge is comprehensive
[b]24:[/b] God's knowledge is independent of extra-divine things
[b]25:[/b] The primary and formal object of the Divine Cognition is God Himself. (Scientia contemplationis)
[b]26:[/b] God knows all that is merely possible by the knowledge of simple intelligence (scientia simplicis intelligentiae). (De fide.)
[b]27:[/b] God knows all real things in the past, the present and the future (Scientia visionis). (De fide.)
[b]28:[/b] By knowledge of vision (scientia visionis) God also foresees the free acts of the rational creatures with infallible certainty. (De fide.)
[b]29:[/b] God also knows the conditioned future free actions with infallible certainty (Scientia futuribilium). (Sent. communis.)
[b]30:[/b] God's Divine will is infinite. (De fide.)
[b]31:[/b] God loves Himself of necessity, but loves and wills the creation of extra-Divine things, on the other hand, with freedom. (De fide.)
[b]32:[/b] God is almighty. (De fide.)
[b]33:[/b] God is the Lord of the heavens and of the earth. (De fide.) D 1782.
[b]34:[/b] God is infinitely just. (De fide.)
[b]35:[/b] God is infinitely merciful. (De fide.)

[StColette]

edited to post in a seperate thread lol

Edited August 22, 2004 by StColette

[Laudate_Dominum]

Good stuff. I wonder what Apotheoun would have to say in light of the apophatic traditions of the East?

[MorphRC]

Thanks for that Angelies