takes faith to recognize certain historical events as salvation history, this recognition provides the Christian with new possibilities for knowing God. But it is above all in his discussion of substance that we find Victorinus most forceful and resourceful. He declares that as substance the Father is the “potentiality-power of being,” omnipotence of being, whose act or action is the Son or Logos. His deeply biblical view of the Father as the living God enabled him to oppose Candidus’s static esse