Lord is One, The: Reclaiming Divine Simplicity (Davenant Retrievals)

Is divine simplicity for Protestants?

After an age of original integrity, the doctrine of divine simplicity fell from grace. Once a cornerstone of orthodox Christianity’s doctrine of God, many modern theologians expelled it from the garden for the sin of employing passé Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysics. But was the doctrine of divine simplicity’s fall deserved? Is it unreasonable to hold that God is metaphysically without parts? Is the Lord really one? Rather than dismiss the challenges leveled against divine simplicity, The Lord is One engages them, presenting exegetical, historical, and theological treatments of divine simplicity. This volume argues that the doctrine of divine simplicity is cogent and indispensable while also making space for historically marginalized or idiosyncratic articulations of it. After all, once expelled from paradise, nothing returns exactly as it was.

293 Pages

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I – Introduction: The World That Passed Away
Onsi A. Kamel

II – Divine Simplicity, the Ancient Near East, and the Old Testament
James Duguid

III – A Biblical and Theological Case for Divine Simplicity
Steven J. Duby

IV – The Brightness of God’s Own Light: Divine Simplicity in the Theology of Athanasius
Steven Wedgeworth

V – Divine Simplicity, Triune Action, and Appropriation in Augustine and Aquinas
J. David Moser

VI – Classical Theism in the Magisterial Reformers and Reformed Orthodoxy
David Haines

VII – “Everything That is in God is God”: Jonathan Edwards on Divine Simplicity
Joe Rigney

VIII – The Parting of God: Diagnosing the Fate of Divine Simplicity in Twentieth-Century Theology
Derrick Peterson

IX – A Sacred Monster: On the Secret Fears of Some Recent Trinitarianism
Derrick Peterson

X – Divine Simplicity: A Reply to Common Philosophical Objections
Nathan Greeley

XI – Conclusion: Quo Vadis, Classical Theism?
Joseph Minich