On Divine Omnipotence (De Divina Omnipotentia)

The treatise is a landmark in the theology of divine attributes — specifically, the scope and limits of omnipotence. It generated the later distinction between potentia absoluta and potentia ordinata.

Damian's question — can God undo the past? — became a standard quaestio in the Sentences commentaries of Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham.

The argument that God's eternity is a simultaneous "now" in which past and future are equally present derives from Augustine's Confessions XI and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy V.

Damian invokes divine eternity as the ground of God's power over the past, using the Augustinian-Boethian doctrine of the eternal present.

Though Damian attacks the dialecticians, his treatise is itself a work of philosophical argument and became a key text in the scholastic tradition it critiques.

The treatise directly engages logical arguments about necessity, possibility, and the past, and was taken up by all the major scholastic theologians.

The subordination of philosophy to theology — "the handmaid" formula — became a foundational principle of Catholic intellectual culture.

"Let [philosophy] be as a handmaid to her mistress." (De Divina Omnipotentia, paraphrasing)

The problem of divine omnipotence and logical necessity remains a live topic in analytic philosophy of religion, and Damian is regularly cited in discussions of the paradoxes of omnipotence.

Contemporary philosophers (Geach, Plantinga, Flint) engage with the problem Damian raised: does omnipotence include the power to do the logically impossible?