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Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. modes of divine activity? How do they manifest? In which way can we apprehend them? Is there a multiplicity of gods whose powers fill the cosmos or is there only one God from whom all power(s) derive(s) and whose power(s) permeate(s) everything? These are questions that become central to philosophical and theological debates in Late Antiquity (roughly corresponding to the period 2nd to the 6th centuries). On the one hand, the Pagan Neoplatonic thinkers of this era postulate a complex hierarchy of gods, whose powers express the unlimited power of the ineffable One. On the other hand, Christians proclaim the existence of only one God, one divine power or one 'Lord of all powers'.

God --- Gods. --- Power. --- Allmacht. --- Gott. --- Philosophische Theologie. --- Attributes. --- Griechenland --- Römisches Reich. --- Power (Christian theology) --- Gott --- Allmacht --- Dieu --- Dieux --- Pouvoir (Théologie chrétienne) --- Attributs --- Römisches Reich --- Pouvoir (Théologie chrétienne) --- Gods --- Neoplatonism --- Attributes --- God - Attributes