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Divine Attributes

Omnipotent, all-knowing, eternal, good: naming the perfections of God

The divine attributes are the perfections that belong to God, such as omnipotence, omniscience, eternity, and goodness. Early apologists like Aristides spoke of them, and they were later systematized by writers such as John of Damascus. These attributes are not separate parts of God but ways of describing his single, perfect nature, helping believers speak truly of a God who infinitely surpasses human comprehension.

How it traveled

  1. Romans
    Corinth · 67
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  2. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
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  3. A Plea for the Christians
    Alexandria · 190
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  4. Against Hermogenes.
    — · 220
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  5. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
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  6. A Treatise on the Anger of God Addressed to Donatus
    — · 325
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  7. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  8. The Hexæmeron
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
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  9. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  10. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  11. Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
    Nyssa · 395
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  12. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  13. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
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  14. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  15. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  16. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  17. Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  18. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. Against the Epistle of Manichæus, Called Fundamental
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. Monologium
    Canterbury · 1109
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  25. Proslogium
    Canterbury · 1109
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  26. Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
    Paris · 1274
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  27. Treatise on The Most Holy Trinity (QQ[27-43])
    Paris · 1274
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  28. Treatise on the Conservation and Government of Creatures (qq[103]-119)
    Paris · 1274
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  29. Treatise on the Work of the Six Days (qq[65]-74)
    Paris · 1274
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  30. Treatise on the Angels (qq[50]-64)
    Paris · 1274
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  31. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
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  32. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
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  33. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  34. Dissertation on the End for Which God Created the World
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  35. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  36. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  37. a careful and strict inquiry into the prevailing notions of the freedom of will
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. Five Sermons. On Different Occasions
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. Fifteen Sermons. On Various Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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