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97: Bishop Barron and William Lane Craig on divine simplicity

Pints With Aquinas

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The Second Principal Critique of the Divine Simpleness

Aalvin plantiga correctly points out that an implication of the classical teaching is that god, precisely a simple is identical to his properties. But this critique, in my judgment, is born of a confusion. In creatures, we find a distinction between substance and accident, or a subject and properties. The latter does indeed have a mitigated mode of existence viza the former. I just moved in the other direction of criticism. One should say that god has no properties, that god is all substance if he wantit.

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