Given these considerations, Plantinga’s and Wolterstorff’s readings of Aquinas on this issue (and, by extension, of the classic doctrine of divine simplicity) certainly fall short of the mark. Mann’s counterargument falls short as well, at least from a historical perspective: simplicity did not indicate the utter absence of distinctions to a majority of the theologians in the patristic, medieval, and post-Reformation eras, and the broader tradition would not have defended such a concept. In addition,