Research Article

Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God

Volume: 9 Number: 1 April 13, 2022
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Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God

Abstract

As a transcendent being, not all qualities of God are known, and the exact meanings of God's known qualities are still ambiguous for man. However, important evaluations are encountered in the field of Christian and Islamic Theology. According to the common view, the divine omnipresence indicates that God is everywhere with His knowledge, power and creation rather than having an earthly body. Therefore, He is immaterial, but His immaturity is a divine immaturity and continues to exist all over the universe in a way that we do not know its nature with our worldly experiences. On the other hand, there were also those who argued that it is possible to be found everywhere with an entity whose nature we do not know. In this study, at the same time, the transcendent nature, which makes God beyond a corporeal existence, is evaluated together with its consistency in terms of being worthy of worship.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Religious Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

April 13, 2022

Submission Date

March 24, 2022

Acceptance Date

April 4, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 9 Number: 1

APA
Yıldırım, A. (2022). Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God. Afro Eurasian Studies, 9(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.33722/afes.1092799
AMA
1.Yıldırım A. Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God. Afro-Eurasian. 2022;9(1):31-45. doi:10.33722/afes.1092799
Chicago
Yıldırım, Ali. 2022. “Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God”. Afro Eurasian Studies 9 (1): 31-45. https://doi.org/10.33722/afes.1092799.
EndNote
Yıldırım A (April 1, 2022) Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God. Afro Eurasian Studies 9 1 31–45.
IEEE
[1]A. Yıldırım, “Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God”, Afro-Eurasian, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 31–45, Apr. 2022, doi: 10.33722/afes.1092799.
ISNAD
Yıldırım, Ali. “Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God”. Afro Eurasian Studies 9/1 (April 1, 2022): 31-45. https://doi.org/10.33722/afes.1092799.
JAMA
1.Yıldırım A. Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God. Afro-Eurasian. 2022;9:31–45.
MLA
Yıldırım, Ali. “Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God”. Afro Eurasian Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, Apr. 2022, pp. 31-45, doi:10.33722/afes.1092799.
Vancouver
1.Ali Yıldırım. Divine Omnipresence and Incorporeality of God. Afro-Eurasian. 2022 Apr. 1;9(1):31-45. doi:10.33722/afes.1092799

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