ABSTRACT

One final attribute not dealt with before now, but very prominent in the theistic tradition, is that of omnipresence. I have not dealt with it before now for two reasons: first, it is not a philosophically controversial attribute, and, secondly, I think it is parasitic on omnipotence and omniscience. Aquinas expounds four related theses in Q.8 of the First Part of the Summa Theologiae:

(i) every divine being exists in everything; (ii) every divine being is everywhere;

(iii) every divine being is everywhere in substance, power and presence; (iv) no non-divine being is everywhere.