Pat goes on at length explaining why and how divine simplicity is affirmed, the explanatory benefits that come along with maintaining classical theism and divine simplicity generally, and then spends time working through objections related to contingent knowledge, modal collapse, multiple properties, and moral obligation. Finally, Pat argues a general safeguard can be provided around the doctrine of divine simplicity because of the apophatic-analogic process leading up to it.
Defending the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity: Contemporary Thomistic Response
Related Episodes, Resources, and References
Stump’s Aquinas
Feser’s Five Proofs
Grant’s Freewill and God’s Universal Causality
Lonergan’s Insight
Clarke’s Explorations In Metaphysics
Pruss’s Causation, Paradox, and Infinity
Pruss On Three Problems of Divine Simplicity
Feser’s Thomistic Dissolution of the Problem of Evil
Peter Totleben’s The Palamite Controversy: Thomistic Analysis
My defense of classical theism on The Classical Theism Podcast
My defense (with Gaven Kerr) of classical theism on Reason and Theology
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