Theology for the Church Divine Aseity with Samuel Parkison
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Jan 26, 2026 
Samuel Parkison, Associate Professor and author of The Fountain of Life, brings pastoral and academic experience from the UAE. He unpacks aseity as God’s self-sufficiency and source of being. He explores how aseity grounds other divine attributes, shapes Trinitarian relations, and reframes worship and salvation as gratuitous gifts. Short, theological, and contemplative conversation.
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Teaching In The UAE For Global Impact
- Samuel Parkison shares his move to the UAE where he teaches at Gulf Theological Seminary and serves in a strategic context.
- He highlights the seminary's role training students from the 10/40 window and sending church planters globally.
Creation Implies An Underived Source
- Creation points to an underived source because contingent things require an infinite source of being.
- Parkison draws the theological inference from creatio ex nihilo to divine aseity.
Prophetic Contrast With Idols
- Isaiah's mocking of crafted idols contrasts a carried god with Yahweh who carries everything.
- The biblical polemic highlights God's absolute self-sufficiency against created, needy gods.
