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    Commitment to divine simplicity entails a commitment to d... — Carmelics
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    Commitment to divine simplicity entails a commitment to divine timelessness.

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    • 1.Divine simplicity was widespread if not universal in the medieval period.
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    • 2.In general, commitment to divine simplicity entails commitment to divine timelessness.
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    • 1.Some medieval theologians held divine simplicity while affirming God acts differently at different times, implying temporal indexing.
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    • 2.Temporal indexing of divine acts is incompatible with strict timelessness but compatible with a weaker reading of simplicity.
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    • 3.Therefore, divine simplicity does not strictly entail timelessness, but only the absence of composition in God's nature.
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    • 1.Richard Swinburne and other open theists accept a form of divine simplicity while explicitly rejecting divine timelessness.
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    • 2.If coherent theologies can affirm simplicity without timelessness, the entailment relation between the two doctrines is not logically necessary.
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    Despite differences with Thomas Aquinas regarding the nature of God’s relation to time, Duns Scotus (c.1266–1308) seems to have upheld divine timelessness (though see Leftow 1991: 228). In general, it would seem that commitment to divine simplicity, widespread if not universal in the medieval period, entails a commitment to divine timelessness (Mullins 2016: Ch. 3).

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