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On Three Problems of Divine Simplicity


Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity Before Nicaea

He highlights the difference between metaphysical simplicity (God's incorporeality and immutability) and ethical simplicity (God's self- ...

Joshua Kelleher, God Under All: Divine Simplicity, Omni-Parthood ...

God Under All: Divine Simplicity, Omni-Parthood, and the Problem of Principality in Islamic Philosophy · Abstract · Author's Profile · Categories · Keywords.

Divine Simplicity - The Reformed Classicalist

Another reason, however, is that for many classical theologians divine simplicity serves as a kind of conceptual anchor for the whole doctrine ...

the Monologion and Divine Simplicity - Saint Anselm College

If one accepts the doctrine of divine simplicity, or indeed considers it a metaphysical necessity, then he will not consider problems of this sort evidence ...

What Is Divine Simplicity? | Catholic Answers Magazine

But God is not divided into three persons—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all fully possess the one infinite divine nature. They differ from ...

Divine simplicity as actus purus - OAKTrust

My formulation of divine simplicity draws upon the medieval insight that God ... the ways that these problems can be overcome. However, in addition to ...

(PDF) Divine Simplicity, Divine Relations, and the Problem of ...

First, Aquinas's view of a strong doctrine of divine simplicity is susceptible to modal collapse. For on such a view, there are no real ...

Divine simplicity and knowledge of contingent truth

I think the hardest problem for divine simplicity is the problem of God's contingent beliefs. In our world, God believes there are horses.

The Dilemma Between Divine Simplicity and Analogy Introduced §1

If God is 'simple' and non-composite, if He just is and His predicates are just who He is fully and wholly in all that those are realized in ...

Moderate Divine Simplicity (blog.kennypearce.net)

According to the weak doctrine of divine simplicity—endorsed by nearly all theists—God has no proper parts. That is, there is no literal ...

Some Questions About Divine Simplicity - Maverick Philosopher

It's the second part I'm curious about. Further to his argument is that divine simplicity rests on questionable metaphysical premises, and that ...

Divine Simplicity - The Gospel Coalition

But as I point out in None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God, such an approach is deeply problematic, turning God into a collection of attributes.

Pruss on divine simplicity - Triablogue

Divine simplicity, like the complementary doctrine of the Trinity, leads to intellectual difficulties. The comparison makes sense from a ...

What is divine simplicity? | GotQuestions.org

The major problem with the concept of divine simplicity is that it portrays the Lord as an idea, rather than a Person. The Person of God ...

Divine Simplicity, God's Freedom, and the Supposed Problem ... - Brill

Abstract Proponents of the modal collapse argument claim that divine simplicity, traditionally conceived, contradicts other Christian commitments about ...

Divine Simplicity - St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology

The topic of divine simplicity encompasses several central questions. For example, is God's essence ontologically composite and if so, in what ...

Divine Simplicity and the Formal Distinction, Part 1 - The Smithy

How can we say that God both knows and wills without saying either that He is not absolutely simple or that for Him knowing and willing are the ...

The Beauty of Divine Simplicity - Credo Magazine

John Calvin understood the name God to be “the one simple essence, comprehending three persons.”[7] In our chaos we can come to a God in whom, ...

Thomistic Divine Simplicity and its Analytic Detractors: Can one ...

I evaluate three of the most widespread analytic objections to the doctrine of divine simplicity: that it fails to cohere with the ...

EUTHYPHRO, GOD'S NATURE, AND THE QUESTION OF DIVINE ...

We hope to show that while simplicity is indeed an important doctrine, insofar as it points to the essential unity of God, yet it goes too far in asserting and ...


Meditations

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Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from AD 161 to 180, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.

The Imitation of Christ

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The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis, is a Christian devotional book first composed in Medieval Latin as De Imitatione Christi.

The Game of Life and How to Play it

Book by Florence Scovel Shinn

The Game of Life and How to Play It, published in 1925, teaches the philosophies of its author, Florence Scovel Shinn. The book holds that ignorance of, or carelessness with the application of various 'Laws of Metaphysics' can bring about undesirable life events.

Rule of Saint Benedict

Book by Benedict of Nursia

The Rule of Saint Benedict is a book of precepts written in Latin c. 530 by St. Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.

On the Soul

Book by Aristotle

On the Soul is a major treatise written by Aristotle c. 350 BC. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their different operations.

The Secret Garden

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The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine. Set in England, it is seen as a classic of English children's literature. The American edition was published by the Frederick A.