Dr. Daniel Pedersen is back on the podcast to discuss his recent work on divine simplicity, divine freedom, and the "modal collapse" argument. He recently co-authored an article on this subject with Christopher Lilley out of Marquette University titled "Divine Simplicity, God's Freedom, and the Supposed Problem of Modal Collapse" for the Journal of Reformed Theology.

This is an open-access link to read it: https://brill.com/view/journals/jrt/16/1-2/article-p127_8.xml?ebody=abstract%2Fexcerpt

Daniel Pedersen is a research fellow at University of Aberdeen's department of Divinity. He holds a PhD from Princeton Seminary. Pedersen discusses content from this article on this episode as well as the work of the Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology which he is affiliated with. He also discusses some upcoming work on the relation of theology and the natural sciences.

The Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology's website can be accessed here: https://aberdeencentreforprotesanttheology.wordpress.com/

Here are links to past work from both Daniel Pedersen and Christopher Lilley respectively:

https://marquette.academia.edu/ChrisLilley

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Daniel-J-Pedersen-2212794971

Daniel makes reference to the book Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God by John Calvin,

https://www.amazon.com/Concerning-Eternal-Predestination-John-Calvin/dp/0664256848?scrlybrkr=c3bf1423

Episode artwork is of Thomas Aquinas, one of the theologians discussed in the historical overview section of this episode; accessed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatise_on_Law#/media/File:Benozzo_Gozzoli_004a.jpg

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