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Plantinga's conclusions are straightforward: (i) God has a nature distinct from himself; (ii) the claim that God has a nature, while not incompatible with the belief that God is sovereign, does conflict with a common though mistaken intuition about God's sovereignty; and (iii) in whatever way we are ultimately to conceive of God's relation to ...
Does God have a nature? And if he does, is there a conflict between God's sovereignty and his having a nature? How is God related to such abstract objects as properties and propositions?
Does God have a nature? And if he does, is there a conflict between God's sovereignty and his having a nature? How is God related to such abstract objects as properties and propositions?
6 de may. de 2022 · In his now classic text Does God Have a Nature, Alvin Plantinga tackles two thorny issues concerning, broadly, God's relation to properties.
1 de jun. de 1980 · Plantinga argues that the simplicity doctrine is incoherent: If God is identical with his properties, then (i) his properties are identical with one another and (ii) God is a property. Since God is a person, he cannot be a property and, consequently, the simplicity doctrine is false.
If God is to exist, he must have properties that make him especially God and not any other being; in other words, he must have what we usually call the nature or essence of a thing. 1 Every entity must have (in addition to universal metaphysical features like individuality and self-identity) those essential properties which it cannot lose ...
2 de may. de 2023 · From the theological point of view, God possesses a nature; however, it is so immanently inherent in him that it cannot be distinguished as a ‘property’ or essence. Therefore, the concept of ‘nature’ is interpreted differently in theology and metaphysics.
