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God without Parts (Hardcover)
James E Dolezal; Foreword by Paul Helm
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Synopsis: The doctrine of divine simplicity has long played a
crucial role in Western Christianity's understanding of God. It
claimed that by denying that God is composed of parts Christians
are able to account for his absolute self-sufficiency and his
ultimate sufficiency as the absolute Creator of the world. If God
were a composite being then something other than the Godhead itself
would be required to explain or account for God. If this were the
case then God would not be most absolute and would not be able to
adequately know or account for himself without reference to
something other than himself. This book develops these arguments by
examining the implications of divine simplicity for God's
existence, attributes, knowledge, and will. Along the way there is
extensive interaction with older writers, such as Thomas Aquinas
and the Reformed scholastics, as well as more recent philosophers
and theologians. An attempt is made to answer some of the currently
popular criticisms of divine simplicity and to reassert the vital
importance of continuing to confess that God is without parts, even
in the modern philosophical-theological milieu. Endorsements: "Dr.
James Dolezal's treatment of divine simplicity, which provides a
defense of this doctrine in perhaps its strongest form, is a
first-rate piece of work . . . It] is the best full-length
philosophical treatment of divine simplicity that I know." -Paul
Helm Teaching Fellow Regent College, Vancouver "James E. Dolezal
has authored a philosophically rigorous and theologically thorough
defense of divine simplicity, and he has done so for positive
reasons. For Dolezal, the whole rationale for defending the
simplicity of God is to assure that we actually come to know,
though not fully comprehend, God as he truly is--the God of reason
and revelation, the God of the Christian philosophical and
theological tradition. Dolezal has made a very admirable and
extremely significant contribution to the discussion of God's
simplicity." -Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap. United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops Author Biography: James E. Dolezal
is a Research Fellow at the Craig Center for the Study of the
Westminster Standards, Westminster Theological Seminary,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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