Religious philosophy of the middle ages on the essence of the divine as objectively natural and human as artificial

The article is devoted to an in-depth analysis of how the leading representatives of medieval religious philosophy understood the essence of God. For medieval thinkers, God was not merely an object of faith, as is often understood in contemporary everyday or religious contexts. He primarily functioned as a concept, a key instrument of thought through which philosophers sought to organize and systematize their worldview and cognitive activities. Through the conceptual understanding of God, thinkers aimed to achieve the highest level of rational comprehension of the world, delineate the limits of human knowledge and cognition, and simultaneously uncover the regularities of Being. The concept of God served as a methodological tool that allowed for the ordering of reasoning, the systematization of philosophical and theological knowledge, and the development of an internal cognitive discipline of thought. Such understanding of the essence of God contributed to the formation of a coherent, objective picture of the world, where the spiritual and material, the eternal and the transient, are interconnected. For medieval thinkers, the concept of God was not merely an abstraction but a means of constructing arguments regarding the origin, structure, and meaning of the universe. It provided a framework for moral, intellectual, and spiritual development, shaped the logic of religious and philosophical discourse, and served as the foundation for the formation of ethical norms and rules. In this way, medieval religious philosophy combined elements of faith and reason, spiritual experience, and rational analysis, demonstrating that the conceptual understanding of God is essential for constructing an objective picture of Being and for the development of a holistic human worldview. It is argued that there are grounds to consider that the philosophical understanding of the essence of natural and artificial intelligence found its clear definition in the concept of God, freed from mutable human-like corporeality, on the basis of which it is impossible to reveal and establish in human consciousness an objective worldview in its motivational and practical orientation.