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Divine Incomprehensibility

The mind can know that God is, yet never wrap itself around what God is

Divine incomprehensibility holds that God's very essence overflows and outruns the grasp of any created mind. As John Chrysostom argued in his homilies On the Incomprehensible Nature of God, creatures may truly know God through his works and revelation, yet can never fully comprehend his being. To know God is real, but it is always knowing the inexhaustible One who remains greater than every thought we form of him.

How it traveled

  1. Against Heresies: Book II
    Lyons · 202
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  2. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
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  3. The Octavius of Minucius Felix.
    Rome · 250
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  4. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
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  5. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  6. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
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  7. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  8. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  9. Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
    Nyssa · 395
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  10. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  11. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
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  12. On the Soul and the Resurrection
    Nyssa · 395
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  13. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  14. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  15. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  17. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  18. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  19. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. Against the Epistle of Manichæus, Called Fundamental
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Two Books of Soliloquies
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. On Christian Doctrine
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  31. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
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  32. Monologium
    Canterbury · 1109
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  33. Proslogium
    Canterbury · 1109
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  34. Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
    Paris · 1274
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  35. Treatise on The Most Holy Trinity (QQ[27-43])
    Paris · 1274
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  36. Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)
    Paris · 1274
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  37. Treatise on the Angels (qq[50]-64)
    Paris · 1274
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  38. Discussion: First Part
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  39. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
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  40. 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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