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The mystery of Almighty God is most properly an explication of the oneness of God, tying the faith of the church to the bedrock of Israel’s confession of the lord of the covenant, the lord of our Lord Jesus Christ. The doctrine of divine attributes, then, is set out as a reflection on Holy Scripture: the One God as omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, and all these as expressions of the Love...

asceticism of broken speech about God. Indeed, this aspect of via negativa is not about us at all. Rather, this negation of image and likeness refers principally and properly to God. It is His freedom that is spoken of in the prohibition of idolatry, the freedom of God’s unique Oneness. Because the radical negation of likeness is not an independent locus, but rather the correlate and concomitant of Divine Oneness, we speak of a positive freedom when we distinguish God from every idol. Though the
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