aseity

• Of all the theological attributes of God that are found in the theological tomes of history, the one that most sends chills up Sproul's spine is the word aseity. —  Challies Dot Com
• Himself speaks these words spoken from all eternity in the Son, transmitting them to creation as commands. (191-92; emphasis added) [3] Bulgakov declares that "God creates the world by and in Sophia; and in its sophianic foundation the world is divine, although it is at the same time extra-divine in its creaturely aseity" (200). —  The Fire and the Rose
• This Spirit is the world in its extra-divine aseity .... —  The Fire and the Rose
• If we take independence in the sense of unlimitedness and aseity, we can speak, as the example of Spinoza shows, of only one, the divine substance. —  History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
• Take God's aseity, for example; or his necessariness; his immateriality; his "simplicity" or superiority to the kind of inner variety and succession which we find in finite beings, his indivisibility, and lack of the inner distinctions of being and activity, substance and accident, potentiality and actuality, and the rest; his repudiation of inclusion in a genus; his actualized infinity; his "personality," apart from the moral qualities which it may comport; his relations to evil being permissive and not positive; his self-sufficiency, self-love, and absolute felicity in himself:--candidly speaking, how do such qualities as these make any definite connection with our life? —  Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms