Tertullian

Against Praxeas 7 speaks of divine spirit as a body of its own kind. Read it within the argument concerning the Word’s reality and distinction, not as human anatomy. ^[1]

This vocabulary differs from OrigenOrigenSecond- and third-century Christian exegete; the surviving First Principles argues for an incorporeal God.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s or AquinasThomas AquinasThirteenth-century theologian linking incorporeality, simplicity and immutability through philosophical premises.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s incorporealityDivine incorporealityDenial of a material divine body; distinct from image prohibition and simplicity.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. The associated image is a modern conceptual comparison, not a documented historical likeness.