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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Critique of Dr. Craig's View of Divine Simplicity

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig responds to staff of Southern Evangelical Seminary who critique his view of God's simplicity.

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0:00.0

Well, Bill, we're going to look at a video that interacts with some of your work and there's

0:14.9

some good friends who have commented on some of your teaching, some of your work.

0:20.8

In the meantime, before we get into that, I want to know how the writing is going.

0:26.2

Yes, I'm working on my systematic philosophical theology. I'm on the doctrine of God and I have now begun

0:34.5

to actually write on divine simplicity. There was an enormous amount of literature just to be

0:41.6

read, Kevin, on this subject. But now I am actually writing and I have begun this section by looking

0:51.5

at the biblical grounds for the doctrine of divine simplicity and then looking at the doctrine

0:59.9

historically and showing how different figures in the history of the church have actually held

1:07.6

quite different doctrines of divine simplicity so that it's something of a misnomer to speak of

1:14.2

the doctrine of divine simplicity once you really speak of it in the plural. And the William

1:22.0

Ling Craig Center. Well, we are now to the stage where we are in private conversations with

1:31.1

different educational institutions in negotiations to try to affiliate the center with one of these.

1:39.7

And obviously I can't disclose the content of those conversations, but we pray that something good

1:48.3

will come out of at least one of them and that we will find an institution that wants to affiliate

1:54.2

with the center. And in the meantime, part of our sustaining donor campaign this spring goes toward

2:03.2

the costs of building this center of paying for the company that is in charge of these negotiations.

2:13.2

If anyone is interested in donating, please do because this is going to reach future generations and

2:20.0

you can do that when you go to reasonablefaith.org. And Bill, I'm glad you mentioned divine simplicity

2:26.8

because that's what we're going to talk about today. This is from a video from the podcast from

2:33.7

Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, Adam Tucker and Dr. Brian Huffling are talking about

2:41.1

divine simplicity interacting with you. They mentioned a couple of things. First of all,

2:45.6

they mentioned that you were on a panel discussion a while back discussing this topic.

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