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97: Bishop Barron and William Lane Craig on divine simplicity

Pints With Aquinas

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Tomystic Simplicity - I Am That I Am

In the bible, god is described as a positive being who has properties like holiness, power and eternality. Bishop eron insists that under the rubric of the via positiva we must also that god is intelligent, loving, providential, personal, powerful. The problem is that these positive predicates cannot be literally ascribed to god on tonism. They are at best analogical. Instead of saying that god is a property or set of properties, one should say that god has no properties. And that is precisely the problem. We really have no idea what we are talking about"

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