GOD is TRUTH, Part 1
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God as absolute Truth references throughout Championing Womanhood
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Athanasius (298? – 373), Bishop of Alexandria
— Defence Before Constantius, the divine referred to as Truth.
St. Basil the Great (329? – 379), Archbishop of Caesarea
— “He is Himself truth….”
St. Augustine (354-430)
— Confessions. God being Truth (numerous times).
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
— Summa Theologica God referred to as truth and the First Truth.
Dante Alighieri, (usually referred to just as Dante ) (1265-1321)
— Paradise portion of The Divine Comedy, Dante referred to Aquinas’ Summa Theologica and then in the same paragraph used Aquinas’ term “the first truth.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrick Hegel, German philosopher
— Philosophy of History “assurance of the eternal, of absolute truth, the truth of God.”
William Wordsworth
— Growth of a Poet’s Mind, a reference made to a highest truth.
John Keats (1795-1821)
— Ode on a Grecian Urn “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”