ABSTRACT

The critical review of the traditional arguments for the existence of God resulted in a reformulation of them that stripped away the accretions and assumptions which rendered them ambiguous and so either tautologous or invalid. It therefore stands as the one valid form, not for the existence of God, but for instantiation of the modality of necessary being. Yet, it has proved possible to unfold and develop the idea of necessary being purely by thinking about it, and to demonstrate that it is one, possessing all its attributes necessarily, transfinite, expressing itself in all its attributes and all its acts in a self-differentiating and non-partitive unity, mental or spiritual, personal and the archetype of moral and rational existence, and (probably) having love as its essence. In other words, that it is God as conceived by classical theism.