Ontology and providence in creation : taking ex nihilo seriously /

Ontology and Providence in Creation critically examines a particular Leibnizean inspired understanding of God's creation of the world and proposes that a different understanding should be adopted. The Leibnizean argument proposes that God's understanding encompassed a host of possible worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robson, Mark Ian Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum, ©2008.
Temas:
Creation.
Creation > History of doctrines.
Création.
Création > Histoire des doctrines.
creating (artistic activity)
creation (doctrinal concept)
RELIGION > Christian Theology > General.
Creation
Creation > History of doctrines
Creatio ex nihilo
Ontologie
Vorsehung
Kreativität
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The ontology of creatio ex nihilo
  • Leibniz's ontology of the possible
  • The ontology of modern modal theories
  • An alternative account concerning possibilia
  • Vagueness and indeterminateness
  • Knowledge, possibility and Ockham
  • Divine capacities
  • Part II. Providential aspects of creatio ex nihilo
  • Theories of Providence
  • Providence and indeterminateness
  • God and chance
  • Part III. Creativity and creatio ex nihilo
  • The notion of creativity
  • Externalism and the creation of meaning.

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