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What does it mean to say that God is “simple”? Oliver Crisp explores one of the oldest and most difficult ideas in classical theology: that God has no parts, cannot change, and possesses no distinction between power, knowledge, presence, or action — because God is perfectly unified being itself.

0:00 Why God Must Be Simple
1:26 What It Means for God to Have No Parts
2:23 Why God’s Attributes Are Not Separate
3:43 How God Knows Everything
4:43 Is God a Substance
5:36 Divine Simplicity and the Trinity

Oliver D. Crisp is a British theologian who currently works as Professor of Analytic Theology at the University of St Andrews, and was formerly a professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

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