F. J. Sheed, writing around the same time as Berkhof, offers a similarly sobering assessment: “A study of what is happening to theology in its higher reaches would almost certainly take as its starting point the attribute of simplicity, and show that every current heresy begins by being wrong on that.”7 For most Christians, even for those whose ecclesiastical confessions contain the doctrine, divine simplicity is perhaps completely unheard of. It may even sound strange to say that God is simple.