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    Supports→The notion of God as self-subsistent Being (both Being itself and a being) is contradictory to the discursive intellect.

    If Being is other than beings, then Being cannot itself be, which implies that God, who must be Being itself to be absolute, cannot be.

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    DDS is represented not only in classical Christian theology, but also in Jewish, Greek, and Islamic thought. It is to be understood as an affirmation of God’s absolute transcendence of creatures. God is not only radically non-anthropomorphic, but radically unlike creatures in general, not only in respect of the properties he possesses, but also in his manner of possessing them. It is not just that God has properties no creature has; the properties he has he has in a way different from the way any creature has any of its properties. God has his properties by being them. Unique in his mode of pr...

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