On the Omnipresence & Immensity of God

.

Order of

Articles  10+
Books  2
Thomas vs. Scotus  1
Latin  5

.

.

Articles

1500’s

Musculus, Wolfgang – Common Places of the Christian Religion  (1560; London, 1563)  See also this AI translation.

Of the Presence of God  433.b

That God is present everywhere  433.b
How God is present everywhere  434.b
How it is said that God is specially anywhere, and to be in some men to be present to dwell in them and to be joined unto them  436.a
What is the use of this place  437.a

Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction…  (d. 1571; London: Veale, 1573), A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism, The Exposition of the Preface of the Law, pp. 417-19

Questions concerning the presence of God in the mountain of Sinai, and of his voice, and of the law given by the Angels

Of the presence of God in general, which is common to all men and creatures, and of his special presence towards his servants

.

1600’s

Becanus, Martin – ch. 6, Immensity of God, pt. 123  in Summa Theologiae Scolasticae  (d. 1624; Leiden, 1683), First Tract on God & the Divine Attributes  tr. Michael Lynch

Becanus was a Roman Catholic divine.

Rutherford, Samuel – 3. ‘Whether God, according to his essence, is omnipresent?  We affirm against the Remonstrants’  in Examination of Arminianism  tr. by AI by Monergism  (1639-1642; Monergism, 2024), ch. 2, ‘On God’, 2. ‘On God’s Essence’, pp. 159-62  Latin

Leigh, Edward – 4. ‘That God is Infinite, Omnipresent, Eternal’  in A System or Body of Divinity…  (London, A.M., 1654), bk. 2, pp. 142-50

Charnock, Stephen – Discourse 7, ‘On God’s Omnipresence’  in Discourses upon the Existence & Attributes of God, vol. 1  (Robert Carter, 1853), vol. 1, pp. 363-406

Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Louis – ‘On the Immensity and Omnipresence of God’  in Theological Theses Published at Various Times in the Academy  of Sedan  3rd ed.  tr. by AI by Colloquia Scholastica at Discord  (1675; London, 1683), pp. 199-205  Latin

Le Blanc (1614-1675) was a French reformed professor of theology at Sedan.

Turretin, Francis – 9. ‘Is God immense and omnipresent as to essence?  We affirm against Socinus and Vorstius.’  in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr.  (1679–1685; P&R, 1992), vol. 1, 3rd Topic, pp. 196-202

van Mastricht, Peter – 10. ‘The Immensity & Omnipresence of God’  in Theoretical-Practical Theology  ed. Joel Beeke, tr: Todd Rester  (RHB, 2018), vol. 2, Faith in the Triune God, pt. 1, bk. 2, pp. 193-211

.

1700’s

Abernethy, John – Sermon 7, ‘The Doctrine of God’s Omnipresence Explained & Vindicated’  in Discourses concerning the Being & Natural Perfections of God…  3rd ed.  (London: 1757), vol. 1, pp. 216-48

Abernethy (1680-1740) was reformed and was an Irish, presbyterian minister.

De Moor, Bernard – Continuous Commentary  (d. 1780), ch. 4, ‘On God’

27. God’s Immensity & Omnipresence Proven from Scripture
27. God’s Immensity & Omnipresence Confirmed by Reason
27. God’s Immensity & Omnipresence Defended against the Socinians
28. Divine Omnipresence in the Hand of the Philosophers
28. Omnipresence not Diffusion
29. God Alone Omnipresent
30. Immensity of God
30. Controversy over Immensity between the Lutherans & the Reformed

.

.

Books

1900’s

Baillie, John – The Sense of the Presence of God: Gifford Lectures, 1961-2  (d. 1960; NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961)  275 pp.  ToC

Baillie (1886-1960) was the son of Free Church minister John Baillie (1829-1891) and was born in the Free Church manse in Gairloch, Wester Ross.  Baillie became a minister in the Church of Scotland and a professor of divinity in the University of Edinburgh.

.

2000’s

Olsson, Philip R. – Timelessly Present, Compassionately Impassible: a Defense of Two Classical Divine Attributes  PhD diss.  (Claremont Graduate University, 2021)  380 pp.

.

.

On the Teaching of Thomas Aquinas vs. John Duns Scotus

Article

1600’s

Macedo, Francisco – 3. ‘Whether God’s being present everywhere according to power implies his being everywhere according to essence: whether omnipotence implies immensity’  in Collations of the Teachings of St. Thomas & Scotus, with the Differences between the Two…  vol. 1  tr. AI by Vertias  (Padua: Frambotti, 1671), bk. 1, Collation 9  A more detailed ToC is given at the beginning of the volume.

Macedo (1596-1681), known as S. Augustino, was a Portuguese Franciscan theologian.  While exercising independent judgment, he tends to lean original-Scotus.  He had a very good knowledge of Aquinas’s works (and of Thomists and their works) through his life (vol. 2, p. 424).

.

.

Latin Articles

1500’s

Zanchi, Jerome – ch. 6, ‘Of the Immensity & Infinity of God’  in Of the Nature of God, or of the Divine Attributes…  (Heidelberg, 1577), bk. 2, pp. 108-86

Zanchi (1516-1590) was an Italian, protestant Reformation clergyman and educator who influenced the development of Reformed theology during the years following John Calvin’s death.

.

1600’s

Voet, Gisbert – (6) Immensity  in Syllabus of Theological Problems  (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 1, tract 2, I. ‘Of God’, 4. Attributes of God in Specific, 1st Kind  Abbr.

Maresius, Samuel – 27. ‘Of the Magnitude, Immensity & Omnipresence of God’  in The Hydra of Socinianism Expunged, vol. 1  (Groningen, 1651), bk. 1, ‘Of God & his Attributes’, pp. 477-500

.

1700’s

Holtzfus, Barthold – 5. ‘Of the Truth, Goodness, Primacy & Independency, Infinity, Incomprehensibleness, Eternity, Immensity, & Immutability of God’  in A Theological Tract on God, Attributes & the Divine Decrees, Three Academic Dissertations  (1707), pp. 40-55

Holtzfus (1659-1717) was a reformed professor of philosophy and theology at Frankfurt.

Roy, Albert – Of the Omnipresence & Immensity of God  (Bern, 1717)  48 pp.

Roy (1663-1733) was a reformed, professor of Hebrew, catechesis and theology at Lausanne, Switzerland.

.

.

.

Related Pages