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God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

There is but one only, living, and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions; immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute. With these words the Westminster Confession of Faith begins its chapter, “Of God, and of the Holy Trinity” (WCF 2.1). The plain intention of the authors is to express those ways in
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