ABSTRACT
By God's power or as people generally call it, his omnipotence, they understand the principle of his external activity. The object of active power, whether in God or in creatures, is being which is causally produced. Several recent philosophical writers have maintained that God is not infinite but finite: that he is limited both in being and in power. The treatment of the Divine omnipotence would be incomplete without some discussion of the possibility of the miraculous. Neither pantheists, nor Kantians, nor materialists, have any room for the miraculous. Their respective systems exclude it altogether, and these important groups are reinforced by those who, though perhaps little interested in philosophical speculation, reject the idea of a direct divine revelation. The difference between the meaning of the term 'law' as used to denote these fixed modes of physical activity and as used of some positive enactment, whether made by God or by some human authority, must be carefully observed.
