Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity before Nicaea
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Pui Him Ip, "Origen and the Emergence of Divine Simplicity before Nicaea"
English | ISBN: 026820361X | 2022 | 298 pages | EPUB | 630 KB
This book establishes how the doctrine of divine simplicity was interwoven with the formation of a Christian Trinitarian understanding of God before Nicaea.
For centuries, Christian theology affirmed God as simple (haplous) and Triune. But the doctrine of the simple Trinity has been challenged by modern critics of classical theism. How can God, conceived as purely one without multiplicity, be a Trinity? This book sets a new historical foundation for addressing this question by tracing how divine simplicity emerged as a key notion in early Christianity. Pui Him Ip argues that only in light of the Platonic synthesis between the Good and the First Principle (
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