aseity

There is also a possible threat to divine aseity by the existence of abstract objects.

The aseity of God means "God is so independent that he does not need us."

His current research deals with divine aseity and the challenge posed by Platonist accounts of abstract objects.

Craig is currently focused on the challenge posed by platonism to divine aseity or self-existence.

Clarke and Waterland had definite differences on the theology of consubstantiality and aseity.

Key Terms Aseity - To exist a se is to exist independently of any conditions.

The philosophical justification stems from God's aseity: the non-contingent, independent and self-sustained mode of existence that theologians ascribe to God.

Hick suggests that when listing the attributes of God, the starting point should be his self-existence ("aseity") which implies that his eternal and unconditioned nature.

While Open Theists would affirm God's aseity, they would derive this attribute on other grounds, and deny that it entails all the attributes Geisler thinks it does.

In this way, impassibility is connected to the immutability of God, which says that God does not change, and to the aseity of God, which says that God does not need anything.

He completely misrepresents Aquinas and the doctrine of aseity (which is that quality in virtue of which a being exists of and from itself alone, realized solely in God, which distinguishes Him from all created beings).

Notions of aseity as the highest principle go back at least to Plato and have been in wide circulation since Augustine, though the use of the word 'aseity' began only in the Middle Ages.

Many (St. Thomas, for instance) have also thought that aseity implies divine simplicity: that God has no parts of any kind (whether spatial, temporal, or abstract), since complexes depend on their individual parts, with none of which they are identical.