Sarah Hutton, expert on Anne Conway and this years Elizabeth of Bohemia Prize winner, defines Conways idea of God and Nature as followed:

“In Anne Conway’s Principia philosophiae, God is the first cause of all being, the highest of the three orders of being outlined in her system. The book opens with a definition of God as a perfect being, whose perfections are manifested in his attributes. God is ‘spirit, life and light’ possessed of traditional theological attributes such as omnipotence, omniscience, justice, goodness. Conway conceives of two types of divine attribute, making a distinction between those which are ‘incommunicable’ (such as immutability), which are predicated of God alone, and ‘communicable’ attributes (such as justice) which may be shared by the works of God. […]” (Hutton ECC 2021)

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