If God is absolutely sovereign, then God must be the creative source of the ontological categories themselves, not merely the source of the natures of the members of categories.

Although McCann doesn’t say it, it seems to follow from his whole approach that God cannot be a member of any extant ontological category: he cannot be a universal or a set or a trope … or a concrete state of affairs. Indeed, if he is absolutely sovereign, then God must somehow be the creative source of the ontological categories themselves, how many they are and what they are, and not merely the source of the natures (essences) of the members of categories. God must transcend all categories. Taken to the limit, absolute sovereignty would seem to imply absolute transcendence— and absolute inef...