God and the Alone World

The recent aloneness argument against the classical conception of God seeks to undermine divine simplicity by showing that whatever way you cut it, there is some knowledge that God has contingently. That being the case, God has some contingent property not essential to Him, and if so, He is not utte...

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Autor principal: Kerr, Gaven (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Sage 2023
En: Irish theological quarterly
Año: 2023, Volumen: 88, Número: 1, Páginas: 76-89
Otras palabras clave:B Creation
B Open Theism
B Aquinas
B Classical Theism
B God
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Sumario:The recent aloneness argument against the classical conception of God seeks to undermine divine simplicity by showing that whatever way you cut it, there is some knowledge that God has contingently. That being the case, God has some contingent property not essential to Him, and if so, He is not utterly simple. The authors of the aloneness argument present it as a problem for any classical theist. In what follows, I seek to show that Aquinas’s conception of God avoids the challenge of the aloneness argument.
ISSN:1752-4989
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Irish theological quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/00211400221144750