Much energy has been wasted in speculating whether the writer here
conceives of an actual person associated with God before the world was and how such heresy could ever have been expressed by a devout Jew.
Not exact matches
He tries to achieve this in his own way, insofar as he
conceives of the many «
actual entities» or «events» constituting the
person to be as mutually immanent as possible.
Each divine occasion (if, as I hold, God is better
conceived as a living
person rather than a single
actual entity) must receive its being from its predecessors, and I can image no beginning
of such a series.