Aquinas On Creation

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas),Steven E. Baldner,Steven Earl Baldner
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0888442858

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Aquinas on Creation by Saint Thomas (Aquinas),Steven E. Baldner,Steven Earl Baldner Pdf

The six articles that comprise Book 2, Distinction 1, Question 1 of Aquinas' Writings on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard represent his earliest and most succinct account of creation. These texts contain the essential Thomistic doctrines on the subject, and are here translated into English for the first time, along with an introduction and analysis. In Article One Aquinas argues, against Manichean dualism, that there is one ultimate cause of all created being; in so doing he gives three proofs for the existence of the Creator and the essential features of his answer to the problem of evil. Thomas establishes his definition of creation in Article Two, providing the needed distinctions between philosophical and theological senses of creation. Emanationism and the problem of whether there can be any intermediary causes in God's act of creation are the subject of Article Three. The next article demonstrates that although God is the cause of all created being, nevertheless creatures are true causes in nature. Article Five argues that it is from revelation alone that we know that the world had a temporal beginning, and that the philosophical arguments that purport to show either the necessity or impossibility of the temporal beginning are not persuasive. A detailed exposition of the meaning of the first sentence of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," follows in Article Six.

Author : Rahim Acar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047415923

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Talking about God and Talking about Creation by Rahim Acar Pdf

This study compares Avicenna’s and Thomas Aquinas’ conceptions of God, theological language, the nature of creative action and the beginning of the universe. It emphasizes the connection between their positions regarding theological language and their discussions of creation.

Author : Gaven Kerr OP
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190941321

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Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation by Gaven Kerr OP Pdf

In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation; Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his works in order to present a unified Thomistic metaphysics of creation. Kerr argues that Aquinas's metaphysics of creation, wherein God is conceived as the absolute source of all that exists, is the backbone of his philosophical theology. Throughout his writings, the framework of the absolute dependence of creatures on God and of the independence of God as existence itself is ever present. Without understanding this aspect of Aquinas's philosophical thought, Kerr suggests, it is impossible to understand his philosophy of God. When it comes to metaphysics, Thomas is committed to thinking through the issues involved therein on the basis of natural reason. Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation demonstrates Aquinas's belief that we must arrive at an affirmation of the existence of God on the basis of a wider metaphysical view as to the constitution of reality, a view that does not presuppose divine truths but can indeed establish them.

Author : Tyler R. Wittman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108636537

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God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth by Tyler R. Wittman Pdf

The legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology.

Author : Norman Kretzmann,Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198237877

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The Metaphysics of Creation by Norman Kretzmann,Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Norman Kretzmann Pdf

Norman Kretzmann expounds and criticizes Aquinas's theology of creation, which is natural' (or philosophical) in that Aquinas developed it without depending on the data of Scripture. Because of the special importance of intellective creatures like us, Aquinas's account of the divine origin and organization of the universe includes essential ingredients of his philosophy of mind. The Metaphysics of Creation is a continuation of the project Kretzmann began inThe Metaphysics of Theism; as before, he not only explains Aquinas's natural theology, but advocates it as the best available to us.

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439126295

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett Pdf

In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015032904651

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God and Creation by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) Pdf

God and Creation is a new translation of St. Thomas Aquinas's treatment of these subjects in the Summa Theologiae, with introductory and explanatory material provided to assist the reader's understanding of the texts. The selected questions and articles fall within the area of what is described as natural theology or the study of truth about God that are accessible to human reason without the aid of divine revelation.

Author : Yonghua Ge
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793629111

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The Many and the One by Yonghua Ge Pdf

How God relates to the world lies at the heart of the most intense debates in modern theology and philosophy. Movements of Nouvelle Théologie, process theology, radical orthodoxy, modern Trinitarian theology and postmodern theology (i.e. Jean-Luc Marion) all seek to reconsider God’s relation to the world as a corrective of what they perceive as problematic. Of particular significance is the recent revival of the theology of participation, as promoted by Radical Orthodoxy in UK and Hans Boersma in North America. Facing excessive secularism and fragmentation of the modern Western world, Radical Orthodoxy and Boersma resort to the pre-modern theology of participation as the way forward. Relying heavily on Platonism, however, their participatory theology, as critics pointed out, tends to compromise the intrinsic goodness of the creation. In this book, Ge proposes that a distinctively Christian theology of participation anchored in creatio ex nihilo, developed by Augustine and brought to the fore by Aquinas, provides a more promising solution which not only secures the unity of things in God but also the goodness of creaturely plurality. Since participation in its origin is a solution to the problem of the One and the Many, Ge employs Gunton’s framework of the one and the many in his discussion of Augustine and Aquinas’s theologies of participation. By reshaping their concepts of participation in the light of the doctrine of creation, Ge argues, these thinkers have profoundly transformed the metaphysics of participation, making it finally more suitable for describing the unique relationship between God’s unity and creaturely plurality. This Christian metaphysics of participation is not only an advance on Radical Orthodoxy and Boersma, but also superior to competing theories of reality such as pluralism and reductionist physicalism. The book will also bring out implications for modern science-religion dialogues, the core of which concerns how God relates to the world.

Author : Gaven Kerr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190941307

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Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation by Gaven Kerr Pdf

In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation; Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his works in order to present a unified Thomistic metaphysics of creation. Kerr argues that Aquinas's metaphysics of creation, wherein God is conceived as the absolute source of all that exists, is the backbone of his philosophical theology. Throughout his writings, the framework of the absolute dependence of creatures on God and of the independence of God as existence itself is ever present. Without understanding this aspect of Aquinas's philosophical thought, Kerr suggests, it is impossible to understand his philosophy of God. When it comes to metaphysics, Thomas is committed to thinking through the issues involved therein on the basis of natural reason. Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation demonstrates Aquinas's belief that we must arrive at an affirmation of the existence of God on the basis of a wider metaphysical view as to the constitution of reality, a view that does not presuppose divine truths but can indeed establish them.

Author : Michał Chaberek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 0991988051

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Aquinas and Evolution by Michał Chaberek Pdf

Contemporary Thomists believe that theistic evolutionism--that the origin and development of all living things can be explained wholly in terms of secondary causes with no reference to divine intervention in the course of nature--is consistent with St. Thomas' philosophy and theology. Chaberek demonstrates that theistic evolutionism is at odds with fundamental elements of St. Thomas' thought.

Author : James Francis Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Causation
ISBN : UOM:39015025034367

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The Cause of Being by James Francis Anderson Pdf

Author : Simon Oliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567656100

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Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Oliver Pdf

This addition to our popular Guides for the Perplexed series tackles a subject that is enjoying renewed debate: Christianity, along with Judaism and Islam, claims that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation'? Do we mean that the universe is 'designed'? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act within creation? Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian theology of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding the claim that we are part of a created order that is also the theatre of God's providential action. He examines different understandings of creation, including creation out of nothing and the analogy of being, with close reference to the work of patristic and medieval theologians such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. This leads to an historical overview of the relationship between theological, philosophical and scientific approaches to creation in the modern period. Some of the ethical issues concerning humanity's place within, and treatment of, creation and our environment are also examined. A distinctive yet traditional theology of creation is proposed focused on the concepts of gift and participation as ways of understanding more fully the meaning and implications of the claim that the universe is created.

Author : Kenneth L. Schmitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015001045171

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The Gift--creation by Kenneth L. Schmitz Pdf

Author : Thomas Gerard Weinandy,Daniel Keating,John Yocum
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567084116

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Aquinas on Doctrine: by Thomas Gerard Weinandy,Daniel Keating,John Yocum Pdf

This book provides a critical study of the main Christian doctrines as understood and explained by Thomas Aquinas. The whole Thomistic revival of the last century focused almost exclusively on Aquinas as the Christian philosopher. Thus books and articles developed his understanding of being, his epistomology, natural theology, etc. However little has been done, even to this day, by way of examining Aquinas' teaching on the major Christian doctrines. This book of essays by an international team of recognised scholars will help fill this gap. Such a book will be indispensable in every theological library.

Author : Simon Oliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567656087

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Creation: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Oliver Pdf

Judaism, Christianity and Islam claim that the universe is not a brute fact. It is 'created'. But what do we mean by 'creation'? Do we mean that the universe is 'designed'? Is it the product of an evolutionary process? How are creatures related to God, and does God act within creation? Simon Oliver begins with the background to the Christian doctrine of creation in Greek philosophy and the Old Testament. This provides a route into understanding the claim that we are part of a created order that is also the theatre of God's redemptive action in Christ. He examines different understanding of creation, with close reference to the work of patristic and medieval theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas. This leads to an historical guide to the relationship between theological, philosophical and scientific approaches to nature in the modern period including Darwinism and Intelligent Design. Some of the ethical issues concerning humanity's place within, and treatment of, creation and our environment are also examined. Finally, a distinctive yet traditional theology of creation is proposed focused on the concepts of gift and participation as ways of understanding more fully the meaning and implications of the claim that the universe is created.