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    Aquinas similarly holds that God is immutable yet His rel... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The doctrine of divine immutability (DDI), as understood by classical and medieval authors, permits God to undergo extrinsic changes while ruling out only real and intrinsic changes.

    Aquinas similarly holds that God is immutable yet His relations with other things can change.

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    The classical and medieval authors who developed DDI did not operate with an explicit classification of changes. But Anselm, for instance, argues both that God is immutable and that His relations with other things can change (Monologion 25) and Aquinas does the same (ST Ia 9 and 13, 7). So as they understand DDI, it lets God change extrinsically. Suppose that at t, Quine begins to worship God. Then at t, God comes to have a new relational property, being-worshipped-by-Quine. This is clearly an extrinsic change, since its occurring in God implies the existence of someone “outside” God, namely ...

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