 God is the absolute. An absolute cannot lack anything nor does it have any need to develop itself: it is, eternally, all that it can be. This implies that there is no act-potency distinction in God, no unrealized powers or potentialities. In the classical phrase, God is actus purus, pure act, wholly actual. James Dolezal puts it very well when he writes, “The consideration of God as ipsum esse subsistens and actus purus is crucial for any confession of God’s absolute existence” (Dolezal, 214). 