term-side novelty

In my gift-ontology, term-side novelty is the core placement rule: all contingency, historical differentiation, and newness belong to the created outcomes, the instituted gift-terms, not to God’s intrinsic act. God’s act is simple and immutable. Therefore God does not acquire new internal determinations by producing effects. Yet the effects are real and contingent. Term-side novelty preserves both divine immutability and real divine agency. It also stabilizes Trinitarian and sacramental claims. Missions and sacraments are historically new realities in creation, not alterations in God. This term is the system’s chief anti-process safeguard without collapsing into deism. term-side novelty – RobertDryer robertdryer.com/term-side-novelty/