Divine attributes

Boethius: 500 AD

• Inspired by the work of Augstine - The problem of evil
• 'The consolation of Philosophy'
• He wanted to answer the question "Why are bad people rewarded?"
• God is omniscient - Knows all - Tautology
• God is outside of time
• God has no past, present, or future
• "What god knows, he knows now"
• "He does not know when we are reading this, but he knows rhat we have read it" - Simultaneous possesion of boundless life
• We use tempral things to understand god - Via Negativa
• "A viewer at the top of the hill watches a man walk on a sunny day" - The sun is necisary (Inesse) However…