BONUS|Banez & Divine Simplicity w/ Ryan Hurd
Summary
Who was the Dominican Domingo Banez? What were some of his important contributions? Where did he treat the doctrine of divine simplicity? Why should Christians hold to simplicity when it’s not set down in Scripture? Ryan Hurd, who enjoys reading Banez in Latin, joins us to share some important thoughts on this topic.
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Guest Bio
Ryan Hurd is a systematic theologian whose area of expertise is doctrine of God, specifically the Trinity. His primary training is in the high medievals and early modern scholastics as well as the 20th century ressourcement movement. He has written a number of articles and regularly does translations of early modern theology sources; but his primary project is writing a robust systematics of the Trinity.
Resources
God in Himself: Scripture, Metaphysics, and the task of Christian Theology by Steven Duby [Note: Steven Duby is not a Catholic but this work has received praise from very notable Catholic theologians, including Fr. Thomas Joseph White O.P. and Matthew Levering]
Divine Simplicity by Steven Duby
God Without Parts by James Dolezal
Fr. Domingo Banez (Wikipedia entry)
Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin: A Thomistic Analysis by Taylor Patrick O’Neill
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