Simple is as simple does: Plantinga and Ghazālī on divine simplicity

This study considers the notion of divine simplicity, the idea that God is not a composite of more basic features, and the criticisms by al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) and Alvin Plantinga of that doctrine. What is shown is that most of the argumentation against divine simplicity frequently credited to Plantin...

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Main Author: McGinnis, Jon (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2022
In: Religious studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 58, Issue: S1, Pages: 97-109
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ġazzālī, Abū-Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad al- 1058-1111 / Plantinga, Alvin 1932- / Simplicity of God / Ens necessarium
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Avicenna
B Divine Simplicity
B Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd)
B al-Ghazālī
B Alvin Plantinga
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