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Does Eastern Orthodox theology and Western Catholic theology agree that God is the Ground of Infinite Potentiality and Actuality, or in other words the Ground of Universal Possibility - Absolute Being, "Actus Purus" seems to be expressed in both theologies in some way, so why is there debate between "online apologists" of both these schools?

>Because God’s essence is God’s existence, there can be no change or becoming in God. Within Thomas’s metaphysics of act and potency, to claim that God could undergo change would necessarily imply that there is some possibility—some potential—that is unrealized in God. God’s essence, however, is fully actual, and there is a sense in which nothing is true of God that is not eternally true of God. But, from the side of creatures, we can and must make statements about God that, in their grammatical structure (what Thomas calls their modus significandi), imply the opposite. (pp. 115-116)

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>>20122441
>a million times more interesting and intellectually rigorous than watching muslims try to force aristotelianism's round peg into the square hole of islam
What about the triangular hole of Catholic Christianity?

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