Download or read book Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity written by Andrew Radde-Gallwitz and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Radde-Gallwitz explores how this idea was appropriated by early Christian theologians from non-Christian philosophy with particular reference to Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa.