Editing Ineffability (section)

==In the Roman Catholic Church==
The ineffability about God is affirmed by the [[First Vatican Council]]'s apostolic constitution ''[[Dei Filius]]'':
{{quote|The holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church believes and confesses that there is one true and living God, Creator and Lord of [[heaven]] and earth, almighty, eternal, immense, ''incomprehensible'', infinite in intelligence, in will, and in all perfection, who, as being one, sole, absolutely simple and immutable spiritual [[Ousia|substance]], is to be declared as really and essentially distinct from the world, of supreme beatitude in and from Himself, and ''ineffably exalted above all things which exist, or are conceivable, except Himself''.|[https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds2.v.ii.i.html Dei Filius], Chapter I}}

God's ineffability deals with His being [[Infinity (philosophy)#Augustine|infinite]], invisible and incomprehensible.

This [[dogma|dogmatic]] definition comes from a longtime tradition: [[Tertullian]], [[Athenagoras of Athens]], and [[Clement of Alexandria]] believed that ineffability is a property of God.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1669-27212014000100003|author=Raúl Kerbs|title=Philosophical Assumptions of the Church Fathers God and Creation|volume=26|issue=2|ISSN=1669-2721|journal=Enfoques|date=June 1, 2014|access-date=January 25, 2025|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250125215020/https://web.archive.org/web/20200714172628/https://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1669-27212014000100003|archive-date=January 25, 2025|OCLC=9523170712|url-status=live|publisher=[[SciELO]]}}. Quote: "For Athenagoras and Tertullian, God is the truly real, one, eternal or timeless, ineffable and impassible...If it is supposed that biblical texts and Greek sources have similar meaning, Clement described God as invisible, ineffable, inexpressible by human concepts, indivisible, infinite, bearing no figure, time, movement, place or name."</ref>