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The Credo Alliance: Why We Believe in the Classical Method

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The Importance of Divine Simplicity in the Trinity

Frederick Douglass: It's not just eternal generation that at times has been neglected or at worst, thrown into suspicion. Adonis Vito is pointing this out to say, well, it's not even just divine simplicity, he says. Why is this so significant for really, like you said, Fred, filling in the whole of our doctrine of the Trinity?Douglas: Do you think Lewis Ayers is right on this? And if so, why?

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But this opens up another question. And this is for everyone, really, all of you have written on the Trinity in some way or form. Fred, you're talking about eternal generation and how important that is. I mean, given the last half a century, probably could add and say, well, it's not just eternal generation that at times has been neglected or at worst, thrown into suspicion, but also divine simplicity. And maybe we could go further. I mean, Adonis Vito is pointing this out to say, well, it's not even just divine simplicity, but further ramifications, which would include something like the inseparable operations of the Trinity. We think of that famous line that the external works of the Trinity are undivided, they're indivisible. But Lewis Ayers, for example, has made the points that when we look at not just the history of Nicaea, but what he calls the pronicene or minutic or the pronicene tradition, something like simplicity and then with it and separable operations is quite indispensable to this Christian Trinitarianism. So why is that? I mean, do you think Lewis Ayers is right on this? And if so, why? Why is this so significant for really, like you said, Fred, not just eternal generation, but filling in the whole of our doctrine of the Trinity?

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