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omnipotens, omnisciens, omnipr[a]esens

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This enquiry arises from a question put to me by a close friend who teaches Religious Studies.

There appears to be an established theological tradition, Catholic or Protestant, that God is addressed, or described as, omnipotens, omnisciens, omnipraesens ['Almighty, all-knowing, all-present'].

My own researches (in e.g. TLL), show that this is not a formulation by any of the Latin fathers such as Augustine, nor does it appear in Aquinas. By around the...

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