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 | | Divine Knowledge Description of the Divine Knowledge That God is omniscient or possesses the most perfect knowledge of all things, follows from His infinite perfection. | | | Indeed, Divine knowledge itself is really identical with Divine essence, as are all the attributes and acts of God; but according to our finite modes of thought we feel the need of conceiving them distinctly and of representing the Divine essence as the medium or mirror in which the Divine intellect sees all truth. | | | DIVINE PERSONALITY When we say that God is a personal being we mean that He is intelligent and free and distinct from the created universe. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/DOCTRINE/06612A.TXT
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| | Western Concepts of God [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The Neo-Platonic God of Plotinus (204/5-270 A.D.) is the source of the universe, which is the inevitable overflow of divinity. | | | Issues related to Western concepts of God include the nature of divine attributes and how they can be known, if or how that knowledge can be communicated, the relation between such knowledge and logic, the nature of divine causality, and the relation between the divine and the human will. | | | Religion was retreating from reason both by emphasizing the divine will over the divine intellect, and in the human realm, by emphasizing faith over reason. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/god-west.htm
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| | The Taboric Light - Byzantine Forum Posts |
| | This holds for the other two divine hypostases as well, for if the divine essence is Sonship, it follows that the Father and the Holy Spirit, who both equally possess the divine essence, would also be the Son, etc.; and so the Trinity of divine hypostases collapses into a form of modalism. | | | If on the other hand the divine essence and the three divine hypostases are identical, it follows that the essence of God would be Fatherhood, and consequently the Son and the Spirit, who both equally possess the divine essence, would also be the Father. | | | That being said, the divine energies are the uncreated light of God that surrounds the divine essence, and which flows out from the divine essence through the three divine persons (hypostases), in order to reveal God to man. |
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http://www.geocities.com/apotheoun/byzantine
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| | Russian Spiritual Christianity and Sectarianism in Russia |
| | The split of Tolstoy from cultural society and his passionate search for the Divine simplicity of life was felt by many, as a return to the wellsprings of nature and national life, distorted by all the fatal process of civilisation. | | | But with Tolstoy, and with Dobroliubov, and a large part of the sectarians -- Spiritual Christians, there is a denial of man as an independent being, as a religious principle, in which is situated half of the religion of Christ. | | | It is known moreover, that the life of Dobroliubov was a matter of reproach for Tolstoy, and the meeting with him heightened in him the tormenting urge for a final withdrawal. |
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http://www.berdyaev.com/berdiaev/berd_lib/1916_252a.html
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| | Simplicity Tractors -- Recommendations and Resources |
| | In theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts. | | | Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) practice the Testimony of Simplicity, which is the simplifying of one's life in order to focus on things that are most important and disregard or avoid things that are least important. | | | In all of these writings, the concept of Divine Unity informs the understanding of Divine Simplicity. |
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http://www.becomingapediatrician.com/health/133/simplicity-tractors.html
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| | Maverick Philosopher Divine Simplicity Part I |
| | This is the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS). | | | A divine being cannot possess contingent modal status: if God exists, then he is necessary, and if he does not exist, then he is impossible. | | | Such an approach to ontology renders the divine simplicity inconceivable from the outset. |
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http://maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com/posts/1121029142.shtml
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| | Divine simplicity |
| | In theology, the docrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/d/di/divine_simplicity.html
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| | On Three Problems of Divine Simplicity |
| | The doctrine of divine simplicity had better not say that mercy and justice, in general, are one and the same property. | | | The doctrine of divine simplicity is at the center of Thomas’s natural theology, since it is essentially involved in his attempt to show that the First Cause that he has proved to exist in the Five Ways has the appropriate divine attributes. | | | But this seems to severely undercut the objection to divine simplicity based on the contingency of what God chooses. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/papers/On3ProblemsOfDivineSimplicity.html
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| | Pontifications » ADS |
| | This assertion of divine transcendence and complexity, so famously articulated by Gregory Palamas, allows the Eastern theologian to evade the logical problems caused by the Augustinian/Thomistic assertion of divine simplicity: “God is not just his essence but more than his essence. | | | In this definition divine simplicity functions as a traditional way for the Church to affirm the infinite transcendence of deity and the radical contingency of the world. | | | Absolute divine simplicity, therefore, must be interpreted in terms of its intent and function–the distinguishing of deity and the world. |
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http://catholica.pontifications.net/?page_id=966
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| | 1997 April A William |
| | The two chief notes of both the doctrine of deification as a whole and the doctrine of God upon which it is founded are thus the claims of divine transcendence and free self-giving, the assertions that we genuinely participate in divine nature, but never become divine in the way in which God is divine. | | | Nevertheless, given that in the context of Thomistic reasoning divine love is a logical consequence of divine simplicity, we need not marvel at the brevity of his treatment. | | | As he elaborates, he specifies divine indwelling as the experience of both the saints on earth and the blessed; inasmuch as mission implies both the indwelling of grace and renewal by grace, the invisible mission must be sent to those in both states (q. |
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http://www.thomist.org/journal/1997/972AWill.htm
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| | unity of simplicity, the noncompositeness of the divine essence. | | | Simplicity means God has an uncompounded or noncomposite nature. | | | infinity is not as an isolated attribute, but a property of the divine essence that extends to each of the divine attributes. |
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http://people.biola.edu/faculty/kevinl/ccsatrinityhtml.htm
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| | Faith and Science A Scientific Basis For Reconciling Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will |
| | Divine simplicity doctrines support a consistency for God's design that can be discovered underlying all creation; harmony and consistency should be universal. | | | Timelessness for God is consistent with doctrines of divine simplicity and belief that permanence is better than change. | | | In the divine reality we are not pawns of chance and we are not existing to fulfill a precisely predestined plan. |
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http://www.biblemetaphors.com/metaphors5.htm
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| | Fides Quaerens Intellectum: Why God Ain't That Simple |
| | The advocate of divine simplicity is saddled with the difficult task of showing that all of God's (apparent plurality of) properties are actually all one single property. | | | Presumably the advocate of divine simplicity has already considered the possibility that his view is incoherent for that reason, but decided that it is not. | | | Perhaps divine simplicity is amenable to deism of the Aristotelian sort, but I find it difficult to harmonize with this aspect of Christian theism. |
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http://blog.johndepoe.com/2005/05/why-god-aint-that-simple.html
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| | COMMENTARIA IN QUATUOR LIBROS SENTENTIARUM -- Lib. I, d. 8, p. II, a. 1, q. 1: S. BONAVENTURAE |
| | Simplicity means a certain, most noble manner of unity, and divine simplicity (means) a simultaneous most high actuality. | | | Likewise, there is greater simplicity, where there is identity without diversity, than when with diversity; but in God there is identity with diversity of supposits: therefore in God there is not a most high simplicity. | | | In the third he concludes, that the names of the praedicaments among the divine cannot be spoken properly, and even the name of the first praedicament, there (where he says): Whence neither is He properly said (to be) a substance. |
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http://www.franciscan-archive.org/bonaventura/opera/bon01164.html
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Are notions to be attributed to the divine persons? |
| | Now, our intellect cannot attain to the absolute simplicity of the divine essence, considered in itself, and therefore, our human intellect apprehends and names divine things, according to its own mode, that is in so far as they are found in sensible objects, whence its knowledge is derived. | | | The second motive is because one person in God is related to two persons--namely, the person of the Father to the person of the Son and the person of the Holy Ghost. | | | I answer that, Prepositivus, considering the simplicity of the persons, said that in God there were no properties or notions, and wherever there were mentioned, he propounded the abstract for the concrete. |
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| | Quodlibet Online Journal: An Examination of Augustine's Application of the Triunal Nature of Human Self-consciousness ... |
| | The foundation or justification for belief in a divine triunity has generally been attributed solely to those scriptural passages which refer to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as God or as capable of accomplishing tasks attributable only to divinity, while at the same time maintaining distinctions of personhood among these three. | | | But within the simple nature of the divine, where perfect self-knowledge and perfect self-love are found, we need not exclude the ascription of substantiality to these energizings of the divine mind. | | | It is through the divine Love's unifying the Father and Son that Self-consciousness is completed in the Godhead. |
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| | Quodlibet Online Journal: On Alvin Plantinga's Notion of the Divine Nature |
| | doctrine of divine simplicity concludes that God is simple in the sense that within Him there is absolutely no division or composite. | | | From this brief description of the question at hand it becomes apparent that the doctrine of divine simplicity does assume significant relevance in relation to some of the most basic beliefs of the Judaeo-Christian community. | | | Instead, he will attempt to demonstrate that the classical statement of the doctrine of divine simplicity ultimately results in a logical fallacy, and therefore an alternative description of the nature of God must be sought whereby these basic beliefs may be supported |
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http://www.quodlibet.net/plantinga.shtml
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| | One Twig and One Leaf Chabad.org > Holidays > Purim |
| | And yet, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov draws a parallel between human simplicity, defined by a lack of learning and spiritual sophistication, and the divine simplicity. | | | One of the fundamental teachings of the Baal Shem Tov is that the simplicity of the simple Jew is of a piece with the utterly simple essence of G-d. | | | So the multifarious and fractional world we encounter conceals an underlying unity and simplicity--the divine essence that it embodies. |
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http://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article.asp?aid=2556
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| | Mormon Philosophy & Theology |
| | A related paper by the same author is A Theistic Argument Against Platonism and in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity. | | | There are two fairly good papers out in pre-prints that deal with the doctrine of divine simplicity by Jeffrey Brower. | | | I've long thought that the two doctrines that really separate Mormons from our creedal Christian brothers and sisters are creation ex nihilo (God creates from nothing) and divine simplicity. |
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| | Daily Meditation from "Divine Intimacy": Catholic-Pages.com |
| | In God, on the contrary, there is supreme simplicity, infinitely superior to that of the angels: in Him essence and existence are identical. | | | If we wish to approach in some way to divine simplicity, we must avoid every form of duplicity. | | | We must avoid duplicity of mind by a passionate search for the truth, loving and accepting the truth even when it exacts sacrifice, or if by revealing our defects and errors it is not to our credit. |
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| | Inward Simplicity: The Divine Center, Part I |
| | Elsewhere in the book, Foster points out that for those who wish to pursue a life of simplicity, it is wise to consider your current position in life. | | | It is life out of the divine Center. | | | But when we live out of the divine Center, thoughts and decisions flow from the Fountainhead. |
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| | Inward Simplicity: The Divine Center, Part II |
| | The covenant of marriage is perhaps the clearest example of this. | | | Inward Simplicity: The Divine Center, Part II Welcome to the | | | We must have a time to still the churning, to quiet the restlessness, to meditate on the almighty God who dwells in our hearts. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Untamed God: A Philosophical Exploration of Divine Perfection, Immutability and Simplicity |
| | In order to make his case, he uses the tools of modal logic and analytic philosophy to hammer out a proper doctrine of divine simplicity and divine immutability that most Christians would agree with. | | | biblical normativity, strong actualism, world bound individuals, analogia attributionis, uninstantiated essences, essential divine property, strong simplicity, divine aseity, modern essentialist, classical theists, contingent properties, classical theism, transworld identity, divine simplicity, divine immutability, incommunicable attributes, trinitarian distinctions, strong divine, possible worlds semantics, modal intuitions, simplicity doctrine, logical modality, analogia entis, divine accidents, temporal modality | | | Taken separately, the core tenets of theism pose little difficulty for the believer: (1) God exists. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/083082734X?v=glance
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| | God and Other Necessary Beings |
| | Although divine simplicity has contemporary defenders of its coherence, it also has many detractors (Plantinga 1980 contains a particularly incisive critique of divine simplicity). | | | A fourth solution, and perhaps the most promising one, is to find fault with the Lewis semantics for counterfactuals (see Vander Laan 2004, Wierenga 1998, Davidson 1999). | | | Here, we have the divine causing his own existence; God is pulling himself up by his own bootstraps. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/god-necessary-being
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| | Tower Records - The Divine Simplicity - Zone |
| | 'The Divine Simplicity' allows for absolute complexity within the utter simplicity of Unity, Unity as seen in all its diversity and also the underlying Unity of all that appears as diversity. | | | Tower Records - The Divine Simplicity - Zone | | | Zone is the creative working relationship of Chris Brandrick and Andrew Cadmore and was formed with Potentia during the Spring of 1988. |
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http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3127437
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| | FLUXEUROPA: ZONE - THE DIVINE SIMPLICITY |
| | CD Rik writes: The Divine Simplicity (1994 ZONE CD004) by Zone provides powerful ambient music for conjuring spells from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. | | | Zone are Chris Brandrick and Andrew Cadmore and they can be contacted at Potentia House, 12 Martell Street, Fforestfach, Swansea, Wales, SA4 8HX. | | | Then, when the piano comes in, it's a bit like Lydia Lunch's Drowning of Lucy Hamilton but more unnerving, less aggressive. |
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http://www.fluxeuropa.com/zone-divine.htm
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