God without Parts Quotes

“The doctrine of divine simplicity teaches that (1) God is identical with his existence and his essence and (2) that each of his attributes is ontologically identical with his existence and with every other one of his attributes.”
― James E. Dolezal, God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness

“This distinction is most broadly summarized in the affirmation that God is “most absolute.” This means that no principle or power stands back of or alongside God by which he instantiates or understands his existence and essence. He alone is the sufficient reason for his own existence, essence, and attributes. He does not possess his perfections by relation to anything or anyone other than himself.”
― James E. Dolezal, God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness

“God is not correlative to any non-divine thing.”
― James E. Dolezal, God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God's Absoluteness