Abstract Largely assumed to be intrinsic, recent work in analytic theology suggests aseity might be an extrinsic property. This has most vividly been discussed in the literature on the Christian trinitarian doctrine of divine processions, which requires aseity to be extrinsic so as to avoid the ontological subordination worry. This paper argues that the existing literature ignores a crucial point, which is that divine aseity is distinct from mere aseity. Consequently, I point out that while mere aseity may be extrinsic, divine aseity is still probably intrinsic.
Hayyan Sheikh (Tue,) studied this question.