Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
is his immateriality, or being without body. It expresses an idea made up of a negative part and a positive part. The negative part consists in the exclusion of some of the known properties of nature, especially of solidity, of the vis inertiae, and of gravitation. The positive part comprises perception, thought, will, power, action, by which last term is meant the origination of motion (Paley, Nat. Theol. p. 481). SEE INCORPOREALITY OF GOD.
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Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Spirituality of God'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​s/spirituality-of-god.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.