God, faith and reason in the Philosophy of Nicholas Wolterstorff

Abstract

Inquiring About a Simple God explores the philosophical position of Nicholas Wolterstorff on the divine simplicity doctrine. A central tenet in Western theism, this doctrine faces serious objections owing to its alleged intrinsic and systematic incoherence. Appealing to the constituent-relational ontology distinction, Wolterstorff explains the contemporary bafflement over the doctrine. In this paper, I shall argue that, on relational ontology, reason is being restricted in its natural capacity to know the objective truth of reality. For this reason, the rejection on divine simplicity as incoherent from the perspective of relational ontology is quite premature and unwarranted.