Divine properties, parts, and parity

International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75 (5):388-405 (2014)
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Christian Platonism and Divine Simplicity remain the most commonly discussed views with respect to the way in which Christians ought to conceive of God’s nature and properties. In this essay, I suggest that we ought to consider seriously two versions of a quite different view, namely, what I call “the Nominalized Composite God View.” Both versions of the Nominalized Composite God View share two features: (1) they treat God as metaphysically composite, in opposition to Divine Simplicity, and (2) they deny that God has God’s properties in virtue of instantiating abstractly existing universals, in opposition to Christian Platonism.

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