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Analogical Predication and Divine Simplicity
Pro Ecclesia, 2021The notion of analogy plays an important role in Steven Duby’s project of theologia. Traditional Reformed theology understands analogy as an “analogy of attribution” based on the creature’s participation in God’s own perfections. Duby’s discussion of analogy addresses its grounds, main forms and variations, and limitations.
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The deadlock of absolute divine simplicity
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2012 In this article, I explain how and why different attempts to defend abso- lute divine simplicity fail. A proponent of absolute divine simplicity has to explain why different attributions do not suppose a metaphysical complexity in God but just one ...
Schmitt, Yann
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Dependence and divine simplicity
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Free Speech: Scripture in the Context of Divine Simplicity and Divine Freedom
Irish Theological Quarterly, 2017 In his Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth cautions against straightforwardly identifying Scripture as a constant locus of divine revelation, lest we presume that readers of Scripture can possess or domesticate God’s self-disclosing activity.
Steven J Duby
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Religious Studies, 1982
In The City of God, XI, 10, St Augustine claims that the divine nature is simple because ‘it is what it has’ (quod habet hoc est). We may take this as a slogan for the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity (DDS), a doctrine which finds its way into orthodox medieval Christian theological speculation.
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In The City of God, XI, 10, St Augustine claims that the divine nature is simple because ‘it is what it has’ (quod habet hoc est). We may take this as a slogan for the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity (DDS), a doctrine which finds its way into orthodox medieval Christian theological speculation.
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Simplicity, personhood, and divinity
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1997L'A. defend la possibilite d'une voie moyenne entre l'approche individualiste de Dieu developpee par R. Swinburne et la conception classique de Dieu defini comme un etre pur et simple. Rejetant l'idee d'un agent digne d'adoration ou d'un maitre du monde, l'A.
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Augustine and Divine Simplicity
New Blackfriars, 1996The doctrine of divine simplicity in its denial of any real ontological distinction between God’s substance and His attributes commanded a special place within classical theism, finding a forceful expression within Augustine’s metaphysic. However, the simplicity of God is a relatively neglected doctrine within current metaphysical and theistic ...
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2018
To be complex is to have many parts. To be simple is to have few. Theists of all religious traditions have asserted that God is completely simple – that is, has no parts of any sort. A contemporary statement of this doctrine of divine simplicity would add that God is identical with each of his intrinsic attributes.
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To be complex is to have many parts. To be simple is to have few. Theists of all religious traditions have asserted that God is completely simple – that is, has no parts of any sort. A contemporary statement of this doctrine of divine simplicity would add that God is identical with each of his intrinsic attributes.
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