For many decades, even several centuries, philosophical treatments of God’s nature have been dominated by discussion of the so-called “divine attributes” – omnipotence, omniscience, and so on. This article suggests that this tradition is bankrupt and that we need to recover these predicates in their earlier context as “divine names” – the standard locus for the discussion of the divine nature through the early modern period. This, in turn, takes us back to the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo and the understanding of Philo and theologians of the early Church that, strictly speaking, God is unnameable, the I AM from which all things have their being, and revelation the source of our naming. Christ is this “I AM”.