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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...

Orthodox Christians are universally committed to the confession that God is absolute but they are not always agreed on how to characterize this absoluteness. Historically the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS) has been regarded as indispensable for establishing the sufficient ontological condition for divine absoluteness. Accordingly, the Westminster Confession of Faith 2.1 confesses both that God is “without parts” and is “most absolute.” But there no longer seems to be a broad consensus
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