"Who Can Declare His Generation?" Divine Incomprehensibility and Human Reason
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Theological Reason for God's Incomprehensibility
Incomprehensibility is a function of creaturely limitation rather than divine distance. The pro-Nysines would agree with Arius that God is incomprehensible because he is creator and we are creatures. Incompressibility is not a problem to be solved but rather the inescapable grammar of the creator communing with his creatures. If you can grasp it, it isn't God. And so Athanasius can say, so far from being distant, no part of creation is left void of him. He has filled all things everywhere.
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