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    It is not the case that 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.

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    • 1.Anselm argues both that God is immutable and that His relations with other things can change.
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    • 2.Aquinas similarly holds that God is immutable yet His relations with other things can change.
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    • 3.If Quine begins to worship God at time t, God comes to have a new relational property, being-worshipped-by-Quine, which is an extrinsic change since it implies the existence of someone outside God.
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