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CC158: Divine Simplicity Q&A w/ William Lane Craig + Ryan Mullins

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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The Modal Collapse Objection to Divine Simplicity

The modal collapse objection to divine simplicity. When you look at certain claims that christians want to make about god's freedom, god's power,. and then you throw simplicity into the mix, then you get a mode of collapse where everything becomes necessary. And that's bad, because then nobody has freedom, not even god. So i start with some really classical claims. According to classical thinkers like bonaventure and aquinas, and in the contemporary classical theis catherine rogers, the following divine actions are identical to each other and identical to god's existence. There's too much agreement here. Let's turn to a modal collapse. Well, the name alone is enough till

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