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Against Divine Truthmaker Simplicity [PDF]

, 2014
Divine Simplicity has it that God is absolutely simple. God exhibits no metaphysical complexity; he has neither proper parts nor distinct intrinsic properties.
Saenz, Noël B.
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Misleading Simplicity: 'The Great Divorce' and the 'Divine Comedy'

Linguaculture, 2019
Dante’s Comedy is famous, or should we say notorious, for being ‘difficult’, so thoroughly medieval as to be irrelevant for current readers. Most of this is a misapprehension based on the first canticle, Inferno, which few have actually read. Purgatorio
Patricia Erskine-Hill
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Fayyaz Lahiji And A Different Reading of lbn Sina's Theory of Imprinted Forms [PDF]

حکمت سینوی, 2021
God’s prior knowledge of the creatures, before their creation, is one of the most complex topics of God’s attributes in theology, which various opinions have been expressed about it, one of the most famous of which is Ibn Sina’s inverted forms.
MahmoudReza Mohajeri, Azizullah Afshar Kermani   +1 more
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Triune Agency, East and West: Uncreated Energies or Created Effects?

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2020
The present paper situates the Western and Eastern models of divine agency within their respective ontological frameworks. I show how the Western conception of divine agency as the production of ‘created effects’ is rooted in a particular understanding ...
Vidu Adonis
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Critical Analysis of Gitanjali

بازیافت, 2020
Rabindrenath Tagore's Gitanajli depicts the spiritual and emotionalvoyage of the poet towards the Supreme Being. It is a collection ofdevotional songs in which Tagore offers his prayer to God.
Hina Saba
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Transcendent and Immanent Eternity in Anselm’s Monologion

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
This article argues that the signifi cance of Anselm’s contribution to the concept of Eternity as a divine attribute is his well-articulated conception of it as “Maximum”, connecting it to the logic of simplicity.
Lesley-Anne Dyer
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Classical theism and God’s relation to sin [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2020
The article deals with the problem of God's relation to sin in classical theism. It is shown that from the perspective of classical theism the problem of God's relation to sin lies in the diffi culty of reconciling the divine attribute of simplicity with
Igor Gasparov
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Simply Impossible: A Case Against Divine Simplicity [PDF]

, 2013
Within contemporary philosophical theology the doctrine of divine simplicity has regained attention. There are several new defenses of simplicity in the literature. One of the more surprising, and troubling, aspects of the contemporary defenses amongst
Mullins, R. T.
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Is God Pure Being or His Being? Étienne Gilson’s Account of God as Being without Essence in Light of the Contemporary Debate on Aquinas’ Notion of Ipsum Esse Subsistens [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana
In this paper, I evaluate Étienne Gilson’s account of divine transcendence in light of a discussion on Enrico Berti’s criticism of Aquinas’ doctrine of God as ipsum esse subsistens.
Krzysztof Ośko
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Divine Simplicity and The Myth of Modal Collapse: An Islamic Neoplatonic Response

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2022
This paper responds to the modal collapse argument against divine simplicity or classical theism offered by neo-classical or complex theists. The modal collapse argument claims that if God is both absolutely simple and absolutely necessary, then God’s ...
Khalil Andani
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