Een mooi citaat dat ik kreeg als cadeautje van een vriend op zijn verjaardag (sommige mensen geven minsten even graag dingen weg als ze die krijgen), geniet ervan:
If God was simply a singular existing being – a monad […], then God could never conceive of anything other than himself. Being simply One, it would be metaphysically impossible for him to conceive of two, or three, or of an infinite multitude, for One is all there is. […] As Athanasius rightly perceives, only if God is, by his very nature, the Father begetting the Son, could that God conceive of bringing into existence other beings that are not God.
[edit 15 januari 2009; nog even de bron erbij vermelden: dank je wel, Wouter]
Thomas Weinandy, Athanasius: A Theological Introduction (Aldershof: Ashgate, 2007), 80.
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