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Does God have a nature?

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Marquette University Press, 1980 - Religion - 146 pages

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User Review  - Jacob Aitken - Goodreads

The first half of Plantinga's essay critiques Thomas Aquinas' notion of absolute divine simplicity as embodied in the Identity Thesis: God is his attributes. Thomas said (1) God's nature is identical ... Read full review

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User Review  - Douglas Wilson - Goodreads

I really enjoyed this, and gained from it. I am rethinking the whole realist/nominalist thing, and this helped. Good stuff. Read full review

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JSTOR: Does God Have a Nature?
Does God Have a Nature? ALVIN PLANTINGA. The Aquinas Lecture, 1980. Milwaukee' Marquette University Press, 1980. Pp. 146. Among the beliefs held by many ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0031-8205(198206)42%3A4%3C625%3ADGHAN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X

Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog » Blog Archive » Re: Does God Have a ...
Re: Does God Have a Nature?, Part II. The basic dilemma that Plantinga unveils for us is as follows (we disregard nominalism which our author argues is ...
dmitrychernikov.com/ blog/ 2007/ 02/ 19/ re-does-god-have-a-nature-part-ii/

PHILOSOPHY 631-600
Alvin Plantinga, Does God Have a Nature? Marquette University Press, 1980. Course Requirements:. General participation. Students are expected to be present ...
philosophy.tamu.edu/ Faculty/ Mccann/ phil631.syl& readingsfall07.rtf

EUTHYPHRO, GOD’S NATURE, AND THE QUESTION OF DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
Plantinga, Does God Have A Nature? 47, cited in Nash, Concept of God, 94. 11. Frame, Doctrine of God, 208. Another interesting argument against Thomistic ...
reformedperspectives.org/ newfiles/ jul_grisham/ TH.Grisham.Simplicity.3.html

Divine Omniscience and Experience
[11] Plantinga, Does God Have a Nature?, p. 144. Mavrodes also writes, ‘[The doctrine according to which God’s knowledge is discursive] has not been popular ...
www.arsdisputandi.org/ publish/ articles/ 000098/ article.htm

Augustine and absolute creation
Does God Have a Nature? p. 30. 9 See Plantinga, Does God Have a Nature? p. 46 ft. lo See note 7. H Freedom in the relevant sense requires that God's ...
www.springerlink.com/ index/ VU4V55553501M555.pdf

Properties, Conflation, and Attribution: the Monologion and Divine ...
Plantinga and Divine Simplicity: Does God Have a Nature? In his Does God Have a Nature?, Alvin Plantinga gives an admirably brief account of his ...
www.anselm.edu/ library/ SAJ/ pdf/ 42Nash-Marshall.pdf

Quodlibet Online Journal: On Alvin Plantinga's Notion of the ...
In Does God Have A Nature? 1 , Alvin Plantinga argues reductio ad absurdum against the classical doctrine of Divine Simplicity, claiming that it ultimately ...
www.quodlibet.net/ plantinga.shtml

Triablogue: Theology on the fly
... he is alluding to Plantinga's discussion of such things as the modal version of the ontological argument and his Does God Have a Nature? ...
triablogue.blogspot.com/ 2005/ 09/ theology-on-fly.html

Descartes, modalities, andgod
9-10; Plantinga, Does God Have a Nature?, pp. 103-114; Curley,. "Descartes on thé Création," pp. 576-583597. 22. K, p. 151. See also a comparable passage in ...
www.openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/ bitstream/ 1887/ 12111/ 1/ 903_069.pdf

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