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God Simplicity (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 3

Preferred form: God Simplicity

Used for/see from:

Actus purus
God Oneness
God Unicity
God Unity
Oneness of God
Simplicity of God
Unicity of God
Unity of God

See also:

Broader heading: God Attributes

Notes

Work cat.: Yaḥyá ibn ʻAdī. Maqālah fī al-tawḥīd li-Yaḥyá ibn ʻAdī; ḥaqqaqahā ʻan al-makhṭūṭāt wa-qaddama lahā Samīr Khalīl, c1980.

New Cath. Ency.: v. 6, p. 558 (God: Entitative attributes) v. 13, p. 229 (Simplicity of God. Simplicity refers to fact that God is absolutely uncompounded of anything other than himself; he is not a combination of substance and accident, act and potentiality, even essence and existence or being and becoming. He simply is; he is actus purus; therefore, absolutely simple and absolutely one.)