Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity

Divine simplicity is the idea that, as the ultimate principle of the universe, God must be a non-composite unity not made up of parts or diverse attributes. The idea was appropriated by early Christian theologians from non-Christian philosophy and played a pivotal role in the development of Christian thought.Andrew Radde-Gallwitz charts the progress of the idea of divine simplicity from the second...