ABSTRACT
Some critics, while praising Aquinas on many counts, have concluded that his view of God’s eternity and immutability depends upon a misconceived Platonism, consequently, his explanations of God’s so-called “simplicity” are based on sophistry and illusion.1 Against this, I present Aquinas’s views as the coherent whole I believe them to be, his later works showing some development as well as greater indulgence in metaphor.
