St. SteVen
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Another writer expands this thought as follows:
"To maintain this Creator/creature distinction, theologians have used the terms
univocal, analogical, and equivocal when speaking about how we know God."
"What’s the difference? Michael Horton offers a careful explanation.
Neither being nor knowledge is ever shared univocally (i.e., identically) between God and creatures.
As God’s being is qualitatively and not just quantitatively distinct from ours, so too is God’s knowledge.
God’s knowledge is archetypal (the original), while ours is ectypal (a copy), revealed by God and therefore
accommodated to our finite capacities. Our imperfect and incomplete knowledge is always dependent
on God’s perfect and complete knowledge." Source
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Another writer expands this thought as follows:
"To maintain this Creator/creature distinction, theologians have used the terms
univocal, analogical, and equivocal when speaking about how we know God."
"What’s the difference? Michael Horton offers a careful explanation.
Neither being nor knowledge is ever shared univocally (i.e., identically) between God and creatures.
As God’s being is qualitatively and not just quantitatively distinct from ours, so too is God’s knowledge.
God’s knowledge is archetypal (the original), while ours is ectypal (a copy), revealed by God and therefore
accommodated to our finite capacities. Our imperfect and incomplete knowledge is always dependent
on God’s perfect and complete knowledge." Source
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