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God without parts

divine simplicity and the metaphysics of God's absoluteness

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God without parts
James E. Dolezal
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An edition of God without parts (2011)

God without parts

divine simplicity and the metaphysics of God's absoluteness

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The doctrine of divine simplicity has long played a crucial role in Western Christianity's understanding of God. It claimed that by denying that God is composed of parts Christians are able to account for his absolute self-sufficiency and his ultimate sufficiency as the absolute Creator of the world. If God were a composite being then something other than the Godhead itself would be required to explain or account for God. If this were the case then God would not be most absolute and would not be able to adequately know or account for himself without reference to something other than himself. This book develops these arguments by examining the implications of divine simplicity for God's existence, attributes, knowledge, and will. Along the way there is extensive interaction with older writers, such as Thomas Aquinas and the Reformed scholastics, as well as more recent philosophers and theologians. An attempt is made to answer some of the currently popular criticisms of divine simplicity and to reassert the vital importance of continuing to confess that God is without parts, even in the modern philosophical-theological milieu.

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God Without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness
2011, Wipf & Stock Publishers
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2011, Wipf & Stock Publishers
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Eugene, Or

Table of Contents

Friends and foes of the classical doctrine of divine simplicity
Simplicity and the models of composition
Simplicity and the theological rationale for divine absoluteness
Simplicity and God's absolute existence
Simplicity and God's absolute attributes
Simplicity and God's absolute knowledge and will
Simplicity and the difficulty of divine freedom.

Edition Notes

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index.

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Library of Congress
BT148 .D654 2011

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Pagination
xix, 239 p. ;
Number of pages
239

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Open Library
OL25194510M
ISBN 10
1610976584
ISBN 13
9781610976589
LCCN
2011276215
OCLC/WorldCat
761902660

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