Absolute power (theology)

The absolute power ( omnipotentia in Latin), in Christian theology, is the capacity which all has God to carry out that is not intrinsically impossible. The fact that God cannot make what is intrinsically impossible does not imply any imperfection, insofar as a capacity which extends to the unit of what is possible must be perfect.

The universality of the object of the divine power is not only relative, but absolute, so that the true nature of the absolute power is not clearly expressed when it is said that God can do all that is possible for him. In fact, it should be added that nothing is impossible with God. The intrinsically impossible one is contradictory in oneself, and its elements are excluded mutually, it can result only nothing anything else from it. According to Holy Thomas d' Aquin, " it is to better affirm that the intrinsically impossible one is unable to produce, rather than to say that God cannot the produire". To include the contradictory one in the extent of the absolute power, like does it the calvinist Vorstius, it is to make absurdity an object of divine intellect, and nothing an object of the will and divine power. However " God is able of all whose achievement expresses its puissance" , according to Hugues of Saint-Victor, " and He is the Almighty because being impuissant" it would not know;.

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