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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burrell, David B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolution--Religious aspects.

Evolution.

Cosmogony.

Cosmology.

Creationism.

Abrahamic religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Creation & the God of Abraham

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-107-20702-9

0-511-84879-X

1-282-73376-1

9786612733765

0-511-90130-5

0-511-90209-3

0-511-79894-6

0-511-79754-0

0-511-77806-6

0-511-90051-1

OCLC:

659500239