God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness - Couverture souple

Dolezal, James E.

 
9781610976589: God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1610976584 ISBN 13 : 9781610976589
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2011

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

James E. Dolezal is a Research Fellow at The Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Paul Helm is a Teaching Fellow at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada. He held the Chair of the History and Philosophy at King's College, London, 1993-2000. He is the author of several books, including John Calvin's Ideas (2004) and Eternal God (2nd ed., 2010).

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Éditeur
Pickwick Publications
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1610976584
ISBN 13 
9781610976589
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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9781498261555: God Without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1498261558 ISBN 13 :  9781498261555
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2011
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