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Well, welcome to OnScript.

This is going to be very much of script this week.

And it's going to be, again, fairly unique.

You can blame me.

But this is going to be an entirely unique approach.

We're going to introduce in a moment two scholars who take different views on an important theological theme, namely divine simplicity, which we're going to be getting to.

And then we thought we'd just have a chat about these things together.

Now, for those of you who are listening to me and thinking, divine simplicity, what was that?

Well, fear not, we're going to be talking a little bit about what that might mean when we get going.

I understand when I first came across the topic of divine simplicity, I had massive misunderstandings, as I'm sure many would. When I started

to have to wrestle with the doctrine of the Trinity, then it's not long before you confront

the importance of this topic, and to what extent it's grounded in scripture or not will be

one of perennial interest.

I remember reading David Bentley Hart's book on God, in which he claimed that denial of divine

simplicity is tantamount to atheism. And of course, when you hear a claim like that, you think,

well, cricky, I better know what I think about something like this,

then. After all, does this make the apostles and prophets atheists? And so that it also involves,

then, how do we understand the relationship between systematic theology and theological claims and

divine ontology or whatever else we want to say and scripture? Anyway, these and many other questions will no doubt come up in the following discussion.

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