 The two ideas of knowledge and power figure prominently in the account of omnipresence given by  Thomas Aquinas  (1225–1274), which we will take up in the next section. Section 3 will consider two 20th century proposals very much in the spirit of Aquinas’s. Some treatments of the problem of omnipresence seem to have the consequence that God is related to the world as though it is his body. That will be the subject of Section 4. In the final section we will consider several recent proposals that depart from the traditional formula. 