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Divine Simplicity [electronic resource] : A Biblical and Trinitarian Account / Jordan P. Barrett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Emerging scholars | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 2015); Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2017] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiii, 228 pages).)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781506424835
  • 150642483X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 231/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BT148 .B374 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Divine simplicity in contemporary theology -- Early Christian approaches to divine simplicity -- Divine simplicity in medieval theology -- Divine simplicity from the Reformation to Karl Barth -- Biblical roots of divine simplicity -- A trinitarian account of divine simplicity.
Summary: The Christian church has consistently confessed that the triune God of the gospel is simple and therefore beyond composition. The various divine attributes do not represent parts of God that, when combined, make up God's nature. However, what was once part of the theological tradition from Irenaeus to Jonathan Edwards can now be said to have nothing to do with Christian theology.Divine Simplicity engages the recent critics and addresses one of their major concerns: that the doctrine of divine simplicity is not a biblical teaching. By analyzing the use of Scripture by key theologians from the early church to Karl Barth, Barrett finds that divine simplicity developed in order to respond to theological errors (e.g., Eunomianism) and to avoid misreading Scripture. Through close attention to Scripture, the work also argues that divine simplicity has two biblical roots: the names of God and the indivisible operations of the Trinity ad extra. After clarifying its biblical origins, the volume then explains how divine simplicity can be rearticulated by following a formal analogy from the doctrine of the Trinity--the analogia diversitatis (analogy of diversity)--in which the divine attributes are identical to the divine essence but are not identical to each other.
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Wheaton College (Illinois), 2016.

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-224) and index.

Introduction -- Divine simplicity in contemporary theology -- Early Christian approaches to divine simplicity -- Divine simplicity in medieval theology -- Divine simplicity from the Reformation to Karl Barth -- Biblical roots of divine simplicity -- A trinitarian account of divine simplicity.

The Christian church has consistently confessed that the triune God of the gospel is simple and therefore beyond composition. The various divine attributes do not represent parts of God that, when combined, make up God's nature. However, what was once part of the theological tradition from Irenaeus to Jonathan Edwards can now be said to have nothing to do with Christian theology.Divine Simplicity engages the recent critics and addresses one of their major concerns: that the doctrine of divine simplicity is not a biblical teaching. By analyzing the use of Scripture by key theologians from the early church to Karl Barth, Barrett finds that divine simplicity developed in order to respond to theological errors (e.g., Eunomianism) and to avoid misreading Scripture. Through close attention to Scripture, the work also argues that divine simplicity has two biblical roots: the names of God and the indivisible operations of the Trinity ad extra. After clarifying its biblical origins, the volume then explains how divine simplicity can be rearticulated by following a formal analogy from the doctrine of the Trinity--the analogia diversitatis (analogy of diversity)--in which the divine attributes are identical to the divine essence but are not identical to each other.

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