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Divine Immutability

The God who changes everything is himself never changed

Divine immutability holds that God's nature, will, and purposes do not change. Augustine and Anselm gave the doctrine classic expression, teaching that because God is perfect and complete, he cannot improve, decline, or be altered by anything outside himself. His constancy grounds the reliability of his promises: what God is and intends remains forever the same, even as he acts within a changing world.

How it traveled

  1. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
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  2. A Plea for the Christians
    Alexandria · 190
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  3. Against Heresies: Book II
    Lyons · 202
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  4. Against Heresies: Book IV
    Lyons · 202
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  5. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
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  6. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  7. Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
    Nyssa · 395
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  8. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  9. On the Making of Man
    Nyssa · 395
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  10. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  11. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  12. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  13. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  14. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  15. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  16. Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  17. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  18. A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. On the Morals of the Manichæans
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  24. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
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  25. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
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  26. Monologium
    Canterbury · 1109
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  27. Anselm's Cur Deus Homo
    Canterbury · 1109
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  28. Proslogium
    Canterbury · 1109
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  29. Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26])
    Paris · 1274
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  30. Treatise on the Conservation and Government of Creatures (qq[103]-119)
    Paris · 1274
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Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) — Question. 10 - THE ETERNITY OF GOD (SIX ARTICLES) — part 2↗explains

Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) · Thomas Aquinas

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Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) — Question. 9 - THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD (TWO ARTICLES) — part 1↗explains

Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) · Thomas Aquinas

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Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) — Question. 9 - THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD (TWO ARTICLES) — part 2↗explains

Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) · Thomas Aquinas

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Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans — God the Highest and Unchangeable Good, from Whom are All Other Good Things, Spiritual and Corporeal.↗explains

Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans · Augustine of Hippo

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A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin — Book II — Shall God’s Nature Be Mutable, Sinful, Impious, Even Eternally Damned.↗applies

A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin · Augustine of Hippo

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City of God — Augustin passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress, and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities are discussed.—Speculations regarding the creation of the world. — Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in Whom Substance and Quality are Identical.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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City of God — Of the eternal happiness of the saints, the resurrection of the body, and the miracles of the early Church. — Of the Eternal and Unchangeable Will of God.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans — It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture that God is Unchangeable. The Son of God Begotten, Not Made.↗explains

Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans · Augustine of Hippo

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John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith — An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. — Book I — part 7↗explains

John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith · John of Damascus

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Monologium — Chapter XXV.↗explains

Monologium · Anselm of Canterbury

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Seventeen Occasional Sermons — SERMON XIV. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever — part 10↗explains

Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards

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Seventeen Occasional Sermons — SERMON XIV. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever — part 3↗explains

Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards

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Seventeen Occasional Sermons — SERMON XIV. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever — part 4↗explains

Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards

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The Confessions — He continues his explanation of the first Chapter of Genesis according to the Septuagint, and by its assistance he argues, especially, concerning the double heaven, and the formless matter out of which the whole world may have been created; afterwards of the interpretations of others not disallowed, and sets forth at great length the sense of the Holy Scripture. — He Argues Against Adversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens.↗explains

The Confessions · Augustine of Hippo

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The Confessions — He recalls the beginning of his youth, i.e. the thirty-first year of his age, in which very grave errors as to the nature of God and the origin of evil being distinguished, and the Sacred Books more accurately known, he at length arrives at a clear knowledge of God, not yet rightly apprehending Jesus Christ. — That Creatures are Mutable and God Alone Immutable.↗explains

The Confessions · Augustine of Hippo

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The Confessions — Of the goodness of God explained in the creation of things, and of the Trinity as found in the first words of Genesis. The story concerning the origin of the world (Gen. I.) is allegorically explained, and he applies it to those things which God works for sanctified and blessed man. Finally, he makes an end of this work, having implored eternal rest from God. — That No One But the Unchangeable Light Knows Himself.↗explains

The Confessions · Augustine of Hippo

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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret — Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus. — Demonstrations by Syllogisms. — part 1↗explains

The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus

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The Sovereignty of God — Section XII.↗explains

The Sovereignty of God · Martin Luther

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Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) — Question. 19 - THE WILL OF GOD (TWELVE ARTICLES) — part 6↗explains

Treatise on The One God (QQ[2-26]) · Thomas Aquinas

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City of God — Some account of the Socratic and Platonic philosophy, and a refutation of the doctrine of Apuleius that the demons should be worshipped as mediators between gods and men. — Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in that Part of Philosophy Called Physical.↗explains

City of God · Augustine of Hippo

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