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Cinematic landscape at dusk: a solitary man in a simple tunic stands barefoot in still water beneath a vertical column of gold light; classical ruins and trees line both banks, a small wooden fishing boat rests to the right, and a white heraldic shield with the name Andrei Eugen Dragut sits on the dark foreground shore.

The body the fullness did not need, and still entered

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This essay continues The fullness that pours out a world it does not owe to anyone and The particular event without a new act in God. If inverted Actus Purus keeps God as pure act and still admits dated particularity without a new state in the source,…

Night landscape with a dry stone path through parted river waters, a thin vertical column of light, two figures standing where a crutch lies on the stones, classical ruins on both banks.

The particular event without a new act in God

By Andrei Eugen Drăguț

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The earlier essay left one mechanism unfinished: the dated particular event. This follow-up states it without giving the first cause a before and after. Intervention and non-intervention are not two states of God. They are two kinds of created series…

Wide landscape of a still golden light pouring from the sky into a river and ruined classical world, with a small white coat of arms

The fullness that pours out a world it does not owe to anyone

By Andrei Eugen Drăguț

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Actus Purus and the horizontal process stand facing each other as two demands that seem to cancel one another. The first says that God is pure act: without potency, without becoming, without a lack the world could fill. The second says that the first…