General Index
GENERAL INDEX
Aetius, 193–94
Albinus, 209n.5. See also Alcinous
Alcinous, 30–38
on divine intellect, 31–33, 96, 210nn.15–16
identity thesis and, 33–34, 210nn.21–22
negative theology of, 34, 36–37, 96, 211n.23
Plato’s Parmenides and partlessness, 34, 36, 96, 211n.24
Plato’s Phaedo and noncomposition, 36
Plato’s Republic and immutability, 36, 211n.29
Alexander of Alexandria, 194–95
Amstutz, Joseph, 46, 205n.6
anthropomorphism, critique of, 38–47, 54–60, 65, 88–92, 165–67, 192, 223n.26
anti-Nicene, 193, 197
apophaticism, 192. See also negative theology
Aristotle, 31–32, 37, 96, 207n.32, 209n.8, 209n.12, 231n.29
Arianism
and anti-Monarchianism, 194–98, 243n.20
and divine simplicity, 192–94
and Origen, 11, 158–60, 169–72, 239n.52, 242n.81
theology of Arius, 194, 239n.52
Athanasius of Alexandria, 191–92, 194–95, 197, 244n.25
Augustine of Hippo, 1, 3, 192, 245n.29
critique of, 3, 4, 6
Ayres, Lewis, 8, 9, 19, 191
Barnes, Michel René, 214n.17
Basil of Caesarea, 192, 245n.29
Behr, John, 213n.1
Berchman, Robert, 222n.5
Beryllus of Bostra, 226n.12
Boys-Stones, George, 210n.21
Briggman, Anthony, 214n.11, 214n.15, 214n.17, 216n.34
Bruns, Christoph, 11, 225n.7
Callistus of Rome, 218n.2, 226n.12
Candidus, 158–62, 235n.20
Celsus, 90–95, 113, 116, 123, 129–30
Christ
absolute titles vs. titles “for us,” 135–37, 142–43, 232n.78
as good things, 149–51, 233n.97
as imago dei, 77, 91, 101, 137, 145, 168, 172, 176–82, 195, 230n.48, 231nn.55–56, 241n.71, 244n.25
as justice, 139–40, 231n.55
as life, 130–31, 143, 151, 241n.77, 241n.77
as light, 125, 131, 141–43, 180, 182–84
as mere man (psilanthropos), 121, 124, 219n.12, 226n.14
as power, 139, 170, 173–75, 177–79, 239n.54
as truth, 123, 138–41, 175, 231n.69
as way, 143, 151, 180, 241n.71
as will of god, 169–75, 240n.59
as wisdom, 137–38, 141–42, 164–65, 170, 183–84, 232n.76, 234n.3, 237n.38, 241n.71, 241n.77
as word (Logos), 105–7, 115, 132–34, 137–38, 140–43, 163–64, 170, 185–86, 232n.76, 239n.46, 241n.77
Clement of Alexandria, 120
consubstantiality (between generator and generated), 60–62, 66, 176–79, 181–82, 214n.14, 216n.31, 216n.36, 237n.41
contemporaneity (between generator and generated), 62–64, 66, 182–86, 214n.14
Crouzel, Henri, 226n.8, 233n.102
Dillon, John, 31–32, 39, 211n.24
Dionysius of Alexandria, 244n.22
Dionysius of Rome, 244n.22
Dorner, Isaak August, 3, 201n.3
Dörrie, Heinrich, 210n.22
Duby, Steven, 201n.2
Edwards, Mark J., 11, 204n.35, 205n.43, 222n.5, 225n.7
eternal generation, 183–86, 242n.81. See also contemporaneity; Irenaeus of Lyons; metaphor for divine generation
Eunomius of Cyzicus, 159, 193, 194, 228n.22
Eunomians, 198, 228n.22
Eusebians, 196–98
Fernández, Samuel, 158, 205n.41, 219n.12, 243n.20
forms (appearances), 18, 20, 22–24, 93
forms (Platonic), 6, 25–26, 31–33, 37, 112, 190, 207nn.31–32, 208n.36, 209n.10, 210n.21, 230n.46. See also Platonism: Platonic forms and divine simplicity
freedom (divine), 8, 190, 206n.25
God
as compounded (in Epicurean theology), 35, 94
as faithful, 30, 208n.3
as fire, 89, 91
as goodness, 6, 17–18, 116, 128–30, 134, 172, 181
as immortal, 93–94, 128, 130–32, 134, 231n.55
as immutable, 20–26, 36–37, 39–42, 61, 92–94, 113–14, 116, 131, 145, 148–49, 203n.21, 206n.25, 208n.3, 232n.84
as impassible, 43, 62
as incomprehensible, 45, 51, 52, 67, 192
as incorporeal (ἀσώματον), 36–37, 43–47, 56, 65, 88–89, 91–102, 116–18, 222n.8, 222n.10
as indivisible, 82–83, 95, 98, 113–14, 158–61, 165–66 (see also inseparability)
as intellect (νοῦς), 31–32, 56–59, 96–100, 210nn.15–16
as invisible (ἀόρατον), 91, 101–2, 222n.9, 240n.59
as light, 62–64, 89, 125, 131–32, 182–84
as noncomposite (ἀξύνθετον), 29, 34–37, 43–45, 59, 96–99
as one (μονάς/ἑνάς), 47, 98
as partless (ἀμερής), 34, 44, , 98–99, 159
as primordial (ἀρχικὀς), 36–37, 98
as self-consistent, 6, 24, 29, 39, 42, 79, 190, 212n.45
as self-constant, 39, 113–14, 145
as spirit (πνεῦμα), 89, 91, 100–101, 214n.17, 229n.28
as sun, 60–62
Gregory of Nyssa, 192
Harnack, Adolf von, 72, 208n.3
Hasker, William, 6, 71
Heine, Ronald E., 163, 218n.2, 226n.14, 234n.7, 236nn.31–32, 237n.34
Hellenization thesis, 208n.3
Hermanin de reichenfeld, Giovanni, 227n.15, 230n.46, 240n.60, 245n.30
Hilary of Poitiers, 192, 242n.6
Hippolytus, author of Contra Noetum, 72–73, 77–78, 219n.16, 220n.29
homoousios (ὁμοούσιος), 10, 204n.35, 237n.41. See also consubstantiality
Hübner, Reinhard, 69–70, 84, 217n.43, 221n.36
hypokeimenon (ὑποκείμενον), 122, 126–27, 182, 228n.27, 229n.28, 244n.22
hypostasis (ὑπόστασις), 121–23, 126–27, 152, 163, 169–73, 176, 185, 227n.18, 236n.27, 228n.27, 244n.22
identity thesis. See under simplicity
idiotēs (ἰδίοτης), 120, 122–25, 127, 143, 148, 149, 152, 229n.28, 233n.103
inseparability (between generator and generated), 56–60, 65, 159–60, 167–76, 214n.14
intellection, 31–32, 57–60, 97–100 Irenaeus of Lyons
on consubstantiality (see consubstantiality)
on God’s simple intellection (see intellection)
and identity thesis (see simplicity: identity thesis)
models of divine generation, 54–56
Jenson, Robert, 3, 4, 201n.7
Jerome, 158–61, 241n.70
Justin Martyr, 214n.17, 218n.7
Kalvesmaki, Joel, 52–53, 213n.4
Lashier, Jackson, 214n.15, 217n.40, 217n.43
le Boulluec, Alain, 228n.26
Logan, Alastair H.B., 226n.8, 234n.3
Mansfeld, Jaap, 210n.15, 217n.41
Marcellus of Ancyra, 231n.71
Markschies, Christoph, 10
metaphor for divine generation
branches from a tree, 54, 60–61
lights from a light, 60–64, 125, 177, 216n.35, 217n.43
rays from the sun, 54–55, 60–61, 83, 177, 216n.31
river from a spring, 83
shoot from a root, 82–83
splendor from light, 180, 183, 241n.74
will from the mind, 160, 168–76
modalism, 2, 4, 6, 226n.14. See also Monarchianism
Monarchianism
anti-Monarchian Middle Platonism versus Monarchian Stoicism, 237n.34
definition of, 71–75, 218n.7, 219nn.8–9, 219n.12
and divine simplicity, 78–79, 144–52
identity of Monarchians, 226n.12. See also Callistus of Rome; Zephyrinus of Rome
prosopological exegesis, 71–72, 79, 218n.5, 218n.7
Refutatio omnium haeresium (Refutations against all heresies), 76, 219n.18, 236n.31
theological terminologies of
—difference with respect to aspects (κατ᾽ ἐπίνοιαν), 126, 228n.27
—one in essence (ἓν οὐσίᾳ), 125–26
—one underlying substratum (ἓν ὑποκείμενον), 126, 228n.27
—other (ἕτερος), 73, 126, 219n.16
—the son as uttered word (λόγος προφόρικος), 163–64, 185
monotheism
Monarchian account of, 72–75, 79, 121, 123, 127, 219n.16
Origen’s understanding of, 129, 145, 147, 195
Nautin, Pierre, 160, 228n.26, 234n.7, 235n.20
negative theology, 96, 211n.23, 216n.29 abstraction (ἀφαίρεσις), 96–97
Neo-Platonism, 222n.5
Neo-Pythagoreanism, 50, 222n.5
Newman, John Henry, 5, 7, 189, 198–99, 203n.18
Nikiprowetzky, Valentin, 211n.33
Noetus of Smyrna, 73–74, 219n.16
Novatian, 76–78
Numenius of Apamea, 120, 210n.16, 222n.5, 225n.59
one and many
God as one (μονάς/ἑνάς). See God, as one (μονάς/ἑνάς)
loquacious babbler as composite, 115–16
one divine Word and many words, 105–7, 137–38, 140–41
salvation as becoming one, 109–11
simple truthfulness vs. deception by multiple appearances, 18, 22–23
virtuous man (vir unus) versus sinners as many, 103–4, 108, 111–13
Orbe, Antonio
on distinction versus division before Origen, 82, 221n.38
on Father-Son relation in Origen, 125, 135, 148–49, 233n.103
on the mystery of the Son’s generation, 175, 239n.52, 239n.55
on the Origenian legacy in Eunomius, 228n.22
on Origen’s Trinitarian metaphysics, 229n.28
on the Valentinian background of ante-Nicene trinitarian thought, 158, 215n.19, 235n.18, 236n.29
Origen of Alexandria
critique of Epicurean theology, 92, 94–95, 231n.63
critique of Stoicism, 89–95, 223nn.17–18
on God’s simple intellection. See intellection
and Platonism, 92–96, 128, 222n.5, 230n.46
Rufinus of Aquileia’s translation of, 156–58, 169, 178, 183, 204n.35, 234n.5, 237n.37, 237n.41, 240n.66, 241n.69
subordinationism as a descriptor of Origen’s thought, 120, 147, 152, 227n.15, 230n.46, 245n.30
subordination of the Holy Spirit, 233n.92
subordination of the Son
—distinction between “The God” (ὁ θεός) and “god” (θεός), 133–34, 145–46
—the Father alone as source of divinity, 128, 133–34, 145–48
—the Father as greater than the Son, 129–30, 132–34, 151, 195, 227n.15, 239n.46, 241n.71
—metaphor of statues, 177, 180
unity of will between the Father and the Son, 123, 170–76, 181, 182, 227n.18, 240nn.58–60, 240n.66
ousia (οὐσία), 77, 88, 120, 122, 125–28, 143, 148–49, 152, 161–63, 182, 192, 196–97, 228n.20, 228n.22, 228n.27, 229n.28, 232n.83, 233n.95, 233n.103, 236n.27, 244n.22
Pannenberg, Wolfhart
on the genealogy of divine simplicity, 29–30
on a richer notion of divine simplicity, 203n.21, 208n.3
patripassianism, 72, 74
Philo of Alexandria
and Plato compared (on divine immutability), 41–42
divine immutability and divine foreknowledge, 42
on divine impassibility. See God: as impassible
simplicity of the philosopher’s soul, 39–40
singular nature of the uttered divine word, 47
Plato
patterns of theological speech (οἱ τύποι περὶ θεολογίας), 17–19, 23–24
soul as noncomposite (ἀξύνθετον), 35–36
Platonism
gods, 25–27, 31–33, 205n.7, 206n.24, 207n.26, 207n.32, 210n.13
identification of the Good and the One, 212n.45
Platonic forms and divine simplicity, 25–26
pro-Nicene, 9, 192
Protestant critiques of divine simplicity, 3–4
Radde-Gallwitz, Andrew, 8, 9, 19, 208n.36, 243n.9
Riel, Gerhard van, 25, 207n.32
Sabellianism, 72, 226n.12, 244n.22
Simonetti, Manlio, 204n.36, 229n.28, 244n.22
simplicity
distinction between metaphysical and ethical simplicity, 15–17
identity thesis, 6, 33, 50, 65–66, 168, 173–76
interconnection between metaphysical and ethical simplicity, 46–47, 114, 116–17, 189–90, 212n.46
simplicity and other divine attributes, 15–17, 23–25
simplicity as ethical perfection, 17–23, 40, 102–14, 207n.29
whole and parts (mereology)
—Irenaeus of Lyons, 62–63, 65
—Origen of Alexandria, 98, 105–6, 115
—Philo of Alexandria, 44–45
—Platonism, 34–36
—Tertullian of Carthage, 82
Slusser, Michael, 218n.7
Stead, G. C. (George Christopher), 7, 8, 30, 225n.2
definition of divine simplicity, 15–17, 30
incompatibility between divine simplicity and Trinity, 4, 202n.13
Tatian, 221n.38
Tertullian of Carthage
pars/ portio distinction, 82
response to Monarchian criticism, 80–83
Trinitarian exegesis, 76–78
Thomassen, Einar, 213n.4
tritheism, 244n.22
Tzamalikos, Panagiotis, 157–58, 183, 232n.76, 234n.5, 235n.9
Valentinianism
critique of Valentinian emission (prolatio/προβολή), 53–68, 81–83, 158–62, 165–87, 194–96
protology and emission of Aeons, 50–53
and Valentinus, 82, 213n.5, 235n.22
Waers, Stephen E., 226n.12, 237n.38
Whittaker, John, 209n.5, 210n.21
Wickham, Lionel, 193
Widdicombe, Peter, 221n.1
Williams, Rowan D., 5, 7, 203n.18, 236n.32
Winston, David, 39
Xenophanes, 66–67, 217n.37
Zambon, Marco, 208n.2
Zephyrinus of Rome, 218n.2