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Theists assert that God is, or exists. But they do more than that. They define him in terms of being. He is ens realissimum. He is that being (there can only be one) whose essence and existence are the same. He is ipsum esse, not as an abstraction but as the most concrete of actualities, ipsum esse subsistens.
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Hodges, H.A., Hudson, W.D. (1979). Being and Beyond Being. In: Hudson, W.D. (eds) God Beyond Knowledge. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03732-2_10
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