97: Bishop Barron and William Lane Craig on divine simplicity
Pints With Aquinas
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The Doctrine of God
The distinction between form and matter compels us to search for the cause that brought them together. If essence and existence are not identical in god, we have to search out the extrinsic cause of the divine but this is repugnant to the claim that god is the uncaused cause of finite existence. The doctrine holds off any temptation to describe god in categorical terms, as thomas aquinas famously says,. with regard to god, we cannot know what he is, but owhat he is not.
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