divine simplicity

The Qur'an is not like a biblical book. It is not narrated by Muhammad like Galatians is narrated by Paul and John by John, nor is it narrated in the third person like the law and most historical books. Rather, it is ostensibly narrated god himself. Therefore, if we as Christians take this...

I have compiled quotes relating to divine simplicity from the first 1000 years of the Church, in part to show that the version of simplicity taught by Aquinas is not a novel, roman catholic doctrine, or even "Thomist," as it were, but something universally held to among the fathers (not to...

Hello, In a few weeks, I will be speaking to a small group about aspects of who God is (aspects applied analogously as God is a simple, complete being w/out parts). I affirm simplicity and I can talk about it a little using terms I was taught but how should I present it to a group of laypeople...

It is sometimes argued that the Incarnation of Christ contradicts the unchangeability of God, for if a divine Person became a man in time, then some change must have occured in the divine Person. Traditional Christianity, however, has held that God, by definition, is able to act on others...

Louis Berkhof (1873 - 1957) speaks of the eternal generation of the Son from the Father as "a timeless act, the act of an eternal present, an act always continuing and yet ever completed." My question is if any other theologian before Berkhof spoke similarly, particularly using "always...

Ever since reading James Dolezal's "All That Is In God", I've often wondered about the nature of theophanies. God is infinite, timeless, eternal, invisible; so in what sense are theophanies God? To experience time and space, as theophanies do, is something only creatures do, not the Creator...

Walaeus, a member of the Synod of Dordt, on the simplicity of the divine essence. His main opponent is Vorstius the Socinian-Remonstrant.

From the Medulla theologiae. The simplicity of God. XIX. God, by his simplicity, is without all composition, coalition, concretion, confusion, and diversity, absolutely simple, one, and indivisible, so that whatsoever is or is conceived of as being in him is God. I shall be who I shall be, or, I...