This simple kind of man. Well, it's not a simple topic, but it is a fascinating one.

Talking about divine simplicity.

Dr. Craig, why don't you tell us a little bit about this panel discussion that you were part of on this topic and didn't spell out some of the things we need to know about divine simplicity.

This was a session organized by the Evangelical Philosophical Society at the annual meeting of the American Academy

of Religion. The American Academy of Religion.

The American Academy of Religion is a professional society for teachers of religious studies

at secular universities and divinity schools as well.

And the sessions at the AAR are so wide-ranging.

I mean, it's everything from Buddhist studies to Native American religions to Tibetan studies to

lesbian and queer perspectives on various things. I mean it is it is all over the map and so in an

effort to bear witness to Christ in this sometimes dark environment the the EPS holds sessions at the AAR and this was one

that was organized on divine simplicity and it featured a panel of both proponents and critics of the

doctrine of divine simplicity. On the side supporting divine simplicity was Richard Howe and Brian Huffington, both of Southern

Evangelical Seminary and then the critics included Stephen Davis from Claremont

McKenna and then myself.

Let's talk a little bit about what divine simplicity would entail.

What was at issue here is a very, very strong doctrine of divine simplicity that is expounded by Tomists, that is to say

those who are followers of Thomas Aquinas.

The doctrine of divine simplicity lies at the very heart of Tomism

and that's why those who are Tomists are so ardently committed to this doctrine.

For those of us who are not Tomists,

the doctrine of divine simplicity is a sort of curiosity, an arcane vestige of a certain theology

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