Creation and the God of Abraham

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New York :NY Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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xii,273 p.; 24 cm.

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9780521518680

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"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"

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Evolution -- Religious aspects

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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.

David B. Burrell and Janet M. SoskiceCarlo CogliatiErnan McMullinJanet M. SoskiceDavid B. Burrell, C. S. C.Alexander BroadieDaniel DaviesRahim AcarPirooz FatoorchiIbrahim KalinSimon OliverWilliam R. Stoeger, S.J.Simon Conway MorrisJames R. PambrunThomas F. TracyEugene F. Rogers, Jr.

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
1 Creation ex nihilo: early history	p. 11
2 Creatio ex nihilo: its Jewish and Christian foundations	p. 24
3 The act of creation with its theological consequences	p. 40
4 Scotistic metaphysics and creation ex nihilo	p. 53
5 Creation and the context of theology and science in Maimonides and Crescas	p. 65
6 Creation: Avicenna's metaphysical account	p. 77
7 Four conceptions of creatio ex nihilo and the compatibility questions	p. 91
8 Will, necessity and creation as monistic theophany in the Islamic philosophical tradition	p. 107
9 Trinity, motion and creation ex nihilo	p. 133
10 The Big Bang, quantum cosmology and creatio ex nihilo	p. 152
11 What is written into creation?	p. 176
12 Creatio ex nihilo and dual causality	p. 192
13 God and creatures acting: the idea of double agency	p. 221
14 Thomas Aquinas on knowing and coming to know: the beatific vision and learning from contingency	p. 238
Index	p. 259

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