Goodcheer68
Puritan Board Sophomore
Im reading James Dolezal’s book God Without Parts that argues for the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity. The book is pretty deep but I'm getting through it. There are however, a couple of things in the book that I'm not sure I am fully understanding. I understand for the most part that God’s existence is His essence which we cannot say of any other being. At the very least all other beings participate in existence which makes them composite beings. The strand of argument that I'm trying to get a clearer picture on is with the Genus/Species categories. The book argues something like the following: God is not a Genus nor can be therefore He is simple. What exactly is this line of reasoning getting at? Is it meaning that because genus is a common grouping of a variety of species (which also share similarities in their natures) and God’s being is like no other that he is not able to be logically and ontologically grouped with any other being? Or am I way off? Help me to understand the Genus/Species distinctions as it pertains to God.
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