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The Mystery of the Trinity: A Trinitarian Approach to the Attributes of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Starting with the doctrine of the Trinity, Vern Poythress addresses six challenges concerning the compatibility of God’s independence with his activities in the world. The eternal activities among the persons of the Trinity offer a foundation for God’s activities in the world. Alternative metaphysical frameworks for explaining God’s transcendence and immanence run the danger of overriding the...

Now we consider one more attribute of God, his simplicity.1 What does it mean? When applied to God, the words simple and simplicity have a special, technical meaning. Being simple is the opposite of being composed of parts. God cannot be decomposed into parts. Let us illustrate the contrast between being simple and having parts. Consider an apple. A single apple is an individual fruit, which we recognize as having its own integrity.
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