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Women’s Equality: 20

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”

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