Ontology and providence in creation : taking ex nihilo seriously / Mark Ian Thomas Robson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robson, Mark Ian Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation.

Creation--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 worlds, only one of which he actualized. This proposition is the current orthodoxy when philosopher and theologians talk about the philosophical understanding of creation. Mark Robson argues that this commits the Leibnizean to the notion that possibility is determinate. He proposes that this understanding of crea

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Ontology Of Creatio Ex Nihilo; CHAPTER 1: LEIBNIZ'S ONTOLOGY OF THE POSSIBLE; CHAPTER 2: THE ONTOLOGY OF MODERN MODAL THEORIES; CHAPTER 3: AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT CONCERNING POSSIBILIA; CHAPTER 4: VAGUENESS AND INDETERMINATENESS; CHAPTER 5: KNOWLEDGE, POSSIBILITY AND OCKHAM; CHAPTER 6: DIVINE CAPACITIES; Part II: Providential Aspects of Creatio Ex Nihilo; CHAPTER 7: THEORIES OF PROVIDENCE; CHAPTER 8: PROVIDENCE AND INDETERMINATENESS; CHAPTER 9: GOD AND CHANCE; Part III: Creativity and Creatio Ex Nihilo; CHAPTER 10: THE NOTION OF CREATIVITY

CHAPTER 11: EXTERNALISM AND THE CREATION OF MEANINGConclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612874369

9781282874367

1282874365

9781441138750

1441138757

OCLC:

680036270