pure act

In my gift-ontology, pure act means God has no potency, no unrealized capacities, no intrinsic becoming. God is fully actual, and therefore immutable in se. Pure act is not a sterile abstraction; it is the metaphysical condition for “God gives without becoming.” If God were not pure act, then God could be internally updated by the world. That would compromise ultimacy. Pure act therefore forces the placement rule: contingency and historical differentiation must land in created outcomes, not as intrinsic determinations in God. Pure act also forces the inseparable operations doctrine: there cannot be multiple divine acts in God. The one divine act is the one divine life, personally subsisting as Father, Son, and Spirit.