the Trinity,75 and worked to develop a more nuanced and flexible concept that could rule out composition while at the same time allowing for the “operational complexity” of the Godhead. Medieval thinkers consciously continued the patristic meditation and, even more fully than the fathers, argued that the identification of “simplicity” as uncompoundedness did not rule out either the distinction of divine persons or the distinction of divine attributes. Indeed, it would be one of the burdens of scholastic