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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...

Raeymaeker elaborates on this inability of composites to sufficiently account for their own existence: Every real structure of particular being consists in a real correlation, that is, in a harmony of transcendental relations, for instance, the correlation of the real principle of existence and the principle of essence, the hylomorphic structure, the composition of substance and accidents, etc. In each one of these structures the potential principle and the actual principle are really distinct, they
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