So God must be both simple and free to be absolute. But it is very difficult to understand how a simple being could be free in the unconditional ‘could have done otherwise’ sense. If God is simple, then he is pure act, as was explained at the beginning of this entry. It follows that God is devoid of unrealized powers, potentialities, or possibilities. To act freely, however is to act in such a way that one (unconditionally) could have done otherwise, which implies unrealized possibilities of divine action. Now Dolezal’s view is that it is not only difficult to reconcile simplicity and (liberta...