Alexander Suarez
Puritan Board Freshman
I recently read the below definition of "space" from John Girardeau and wondered if this sort of position had any followers thereafter (or before him besides those mentioned by him):
Now, if space has been shown to be neither a relation nor a condition of existence, nor a condition of thought, nor a substance, it must be a mode or attribute of substance - the only remaining supposition; but it has been evinced to be contradictory and absurd to make it the mode or attribute of any other substance than that of God. The conclusion, consequently, is that it is a mode or attribute of God's substance. This position is not novel, for it was maintained by that subtle metaphysician, Dr. Samuel Clarke, and by Augustin long before; but the reasons for it, which have been here given, I have not met with anywhere. The same line of argument may be employed, mutatis mutandis, to show that duration is but a term equivalent to the eternity of the infinite Spirit.
-John Girardeau, Discussions of Philosophical Questions (Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1900), 515.