Late medieval theologians were divided, we’re told, between intellectualists and voluntarists. The first took God’s intellect to be “prior” to His will, and believed His will conforms to His reason. The latter put the will in the place of “priority” and said that God’s intellect is as it is because He wills it to be so.
It’s a sterile debate, and misses what the Bible places in the position of “priority”: Neither reason nor will but Word.
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