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Creation and the God of Abraham / edited by David Burrell [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780511778063
  • 0511778066
  • 9780511902093
  • 0511902093
  • 9780521518680
  • 0521518687
  • 9781107697270
  • 1107697271
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creation and the God of Abraham.DDC classification:
  • 202/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • BL263 .C79 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Creation ex nihilo : early history / Ernan McMullin -- Creatio ex nihilo : its Jewish and Christian foundations / Janet M. Soskice -- The act of creation with its theological consequences / David B. Burrell -- Scotisitc metaphysics and creation ex nihilo / Alexander Broadie -- Creation and the context of theology and science in Maimonides and Crescas / Daniel Davies -- Creation : Avicenna's metaphysical account / Rahim Acar -- Four conceptions of creatio ex nihilo and the compatibility questions / Pirooz Fatoorchi -- Will, necessity and creation as monistic theophany in the Islamic philosophical tradition / / Ibrahim Kalin -- Trinity, motion and creation ex nihilo / Simon Oliver -- The big bang, quantum cosmology and creatio ex nihilo / Willim R. Stoeger -- What is written into creation? / Simon Conway Morris -- Creatio ex nihilo and dual causality / James R. Pambrun -- God and creatures acting : the idea of double agency / Thomas F. Tracy -- Thomas Aquinas on knowing and coming to know : the beatific vision and learning from contingency / Eugene F. Rogers, Jr.
Summary: "Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing - from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace, theodicy, religious language, intercessory prayer and questions of divine temporality and as such, the foundation of a scriptural God but also the transcendent Creator of all that is. This edited collection explores how we might now recover a place for this doctrine, and with it, a consistent defence of the God of Abraham in philosophical, scientific, and theological terms. The contributions span the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and cover a wide range of sources, including historical, philosophical, scientific and theological. As such, the book develops these perspectives to reveal the relevance of this idea within the modern world"--Provided by publisher
List(s) this item appears in: Creation - Science - Evolution
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)331372

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing - from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace, theodicy, religious language, intercessory prayer and questions of divine temporality and as such, the foundation of a scriptural God but also the transcendent Creator of all that is. This edited collection explores how we might now recover a place for this doctrine, and with it, a consistent defence of the God of Abraham in philosophical, scientific, and theological terms. The contributions span the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and cover a wide range of sources, including historical, philosophical, scientific and theological. As such, the book develops these perspectives to reveal the relevance of this idea within the modern world"--Provided by publisher

Creation ex nihilo : early history / Ernan McMullin -- Creatio ex nihilo : its Jewish and Christian foundations / Janet M. Soskice -- The act of creation with its theological consequences / David B. Burrell -- Scotisitc metaphysics and creation ex nihilo / Alexander Broadie -- Creation and the context of theology and science in Maimonides and Crescas / Daniel Davies -- Creation : Avicenna's metaphysical account / Rahim Acar -- Four conceptions of creatio ex nihilo and the compatibility questions / Pirooz Fatoorchi -- Will, necessity and creation as monistic theophany in the Islamic philosophical tradition / / Ibrahim Kalin -- Trinity, motion and creation ex nihilo / Simon Oliver -- The big bang, quantum cosmology and creatio ex nihilo / Willim R. Stoeger -- What is written into creation? / Simon Conway Morris -- Creatio ex nihilo and dual causality / James R. Pambrun -- God and creatures acting : the idea of double agency / Thomas F. Tracy -- Thomas Aquinas on knowing and coming to know : the beatific vision and learning from contingency / Eugene F. Rogers, Jr.

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