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Ep. 139 - Can We Hold Divine Ideas and Divine Simplicity Together? w/Dr. Thomas Ward

Parker's Pensées

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The Imitative Theory of God's Ideas of Creatures

An imitation is a kind of relation. In general, relations depend on their non relational foundations. The containment theory says god would be aware of all the ways in creaturely natures imitate him. Instead, god's knowledge of these essences, or nature's a, is first and foremost, a way of knowing himself.

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