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    There must be some properties that God and creatures share. — Carmelics
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    There must be some properties that God and creatures share.

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    • 1.If God shares no properties with creatures, then God is wholly other than creatures and out of all relation to them.
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    • 2.God cannot be wholly other than creatures and out of all relation to them.
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    • 1.Analogical predication allows theological language to be meaningful without requiring genuinely shared univocal properties between God and creatures.
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    • 2.Aquinas's doctrine of analogy entails that terms like 'good' apply to God and creatures in neither identical nor wholly equivocal senses, preserving real reference without shared properties.
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    • 3.A relation of proportionality or causal dependence can ground meaningful God-talk even where no single property is instantiated by both relata.
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    • 1.Divine ineffability traditions (Pseudo-Dionysius, Maimonides) hold that God transcends all creaturely categories, yet relation to creatures is preserved through God's causal primacy alone.
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    • 2.A cause can stand in a real productive relation to its effects without sharing any intrinsic property with them, as efficient causation does not require a common attribute between agent and patient.
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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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