The Traditional Doctrine of Divine Simplicity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20312962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherin A Rogers (0000-0001-5138-1518, University of Delaware, corresponding author), KATHERIN ROGERS |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-186 |
| Publication date | 1996-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religious Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4125 • E-ISSN: 1469-901X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034412500024215 |
| OpenAlex | W1979535283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 8 |
Traditionally God has been considered absolutely simple. Some contemporary philosophers argue that this means that God is His attributes and hence is mere quality, and that all the divine attributes name exactly the same quality, which is incoherent. However, the contemporary debate misunderstands the tradition. God is not quality, He is act . Analogies from human experience can minimize the initial implausibility. There are worrisome corollaries to this doctrine, the most troubling being that God's nature is somehow dependent on the choices of His free creatures. This conclusion, though radical, is not as shocking as it appears
Creatures · Doctrine · Epistemology · Existence of God · Natural (archaeology) · Possible world · Quality (philosophy) · Simple (philosophy) · Simplicity · Theism · Theology · History · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
Divine simplicity as symmetric parthood
The Simplicity of the Living God
Two Theories of Analogical Predication
Classical Theism, Arbitrary Creation, and Reason-Based Action
The fruitful death of modal collapse arguments
The aloneness argument against classical theism
Truth-making and divine eternity
Truthmaking, resemblance, and divine simplicity
God, love, and analytic philosophy of religion
The Problem of Arbitrary Creation for Impassibility
Noteworthy Problems with God’s Immutability, Impassibility, and Simplicity. Should We Treat These Divine Attributes and the Hellenic Conditions of Christian Theism as a Dogma
Logic and Divine Simplicity
Classical Theism, Interpersonal Relations, and the Receptivity of God
The Neo-Classical Challenge to Classical Theism
Why Open Theism Is Natural and Classical Theism Is Not
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |