It is easy to see that the divine simplicity also grounds God's possession of essential properties.
Recall that one of the failings of the "old thinking," according to Rosenzweig, was its tendency to reduce the different kinds of beings to one: grounding the world and the self in God, grounding gods and selves in the world, or grounding God and world within the self.
A more important problem, though, may be the fact that the emotion or feeling state which grounds God's acts of compassion, according to Aquinas, isn't literally tinged with sorrow.
The ground, praise God, isn't frozen.
It was rejected by most of the Reformers on the ground that God alone can forgive sins.
When one part of the crowd is devoted to Jay-Z and another part to John Zorn, the common ground becomes "God Bless America".
"They wore Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath T-shirts," writes Knopper, then a 13-year-old disco-hater "smashed bottles on the ground, smoked God knows what and chanted their almighty rallying cry: 'Disco sucks'!" If that's not enough to turn you into a disco fan, then I don't know what is.
For example, the philosophical rationale for positing this "transcendental ground" or God as beyond rather than identical with Being is obscure, and so too is the exact way in which it is supposed to be the impulse behind and accompaniment of all attempts to know.
This takes the form of positing a "transcendental ground" or God which is (1) beyond all oppositions, including those of thought/reality, thought/volition, and concept/judgment, (2) beyond Being (even though Being is itself beyond such oppositions), (3) an essential impulse behind, and accompaniment of, all attempts to know, and (4) not thinkable or linguistically expressible but instead felt.
On the ground of God's promises, we cannot help but act and hope for something better.
