Creation And Metaphysics

Author : Norman Kretzmann,Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
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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 : Gaven Kerr OP
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Herve J. Thibault
Publisher : Springer
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401762557

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Creation and Metaphysics by Herve J. Thibault Pdf

During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played a decisive role in St. Thomas Aquinas' view of existence as an existential act or actus es sendi. The importance for metaphysics of this view of existence as act war rants an investigation of the relation between creation and actus essendi; for St. Thomas is the only one, in the history of philosophy, to have con sidered existence as an act-of-being. This study will be limited to the early works of St. Thomas. By the time of the Summa Contra Gentiles, he had reached the key positions of his metaphysics. And the first fifty-three chap ters of the Summa Contra Gentiles were written in Paris before June, 1259; 1 the rest was completed in Italy before 1265. The project was therefore con ceived by St. Thomas during the first period of his career. How the notion of creation enabled him to transform the Aristotelian metaphysics of essence into a metaphysics of esse can be seen from three sections of the Summa Contra Gentiles. Although primarily a theological treatise, the Contra Gentiles never theless accomplishes a radical metaphysical transformation of Aristotelian ism by shifting the whole perspective from esse in actu per formam to actus essendi. Seen from the perspective of existential act as the absolute perfec tion, metaphysics is raised to a strictly transcendental plane of consideration.

Author : Herve J. Thibault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9401750831

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Creation and Metaphysics by Herve J. Thibault Pdf

Author : Adrian Pabst
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802864512

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Metaphysics by Adrian Pabst Pdf

"This book does nothing less than to set new standards in combining philosophical with political theology. Pabst s argument about rationality has the potential to change debates in philosophy, politics, and religion." (from the foreword) This comprehensive and detailed study of individuation reveals the theological nature of metaphysics. Adrian Pabst argues that ancient and modern conceptions of "being" or individual substance fail to account for the ontological relations that bind beings to each other and to God, their source. On the basis of a genealogical account of rival theories of creation and individuation from Plato to postmodernism, Pabst proposes that the Christian Neo-Platonic fusion of biblical revelation with Greco-Roman philosophy fulfills and surpasses all other ontologies and conceptions of individuality.

Author : Roza Riaikkenen,Margarita Riaikkenen
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781785357084

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Creator and Creators by Roza Riaikkenen,Margarita Riaikkenen Pdf

Creator and Creators starts from the point of Nothing/Everything and the cosmic Rhythm, and gradually includes and explains the esoteric and exoteric mechanisms that lead to manifestation of life as we know it. Through an analysis of personal experience and the synthesis of spiritual philosophy and modern discoveries in cosmology, quantum physics, and the holographic mechanisms of genetics and neurophysiology Creator and Creators develops a new definition of Matter and new explanations of the nature of Time, Gravitational Waves, and Dark Energy. The book also solves the argument between the creationists and evolutionists by providing a cyclic theory of Creation and Evolution.

Author : Erkan M. Kurt
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1935295187

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Creation by Erkan M. Kurt Pdf

This book explores the constant of natural existence, the principle that governs the perennial emergence of the world from the formation of stars to the movement of continents, from the sprout of a seed to the ripening of fruit, from the birth of a person to the death of a culture. As understood in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, this principle is "creation" in the sense that everything in the universe comes into existence through the creative command of God.

Author : David S. Alkek,David S Alkek MD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780595415199

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The Self-Creating Universe by David S. Alkek,David S Alkek MD Pdf

This unique scientific treatise merges science and philosophy, theorizing that the universe, life, and human societies have an innate purpose and are part of a universal reality.

Author : Gaven Kerr
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Rahim Acar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Gerrit Glas,Jeroen de Ridder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319708812

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The Future of Creation Order by Gerrit Glas,Jeroen de Ridder Pdf

This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives. Focusing on the natural and life sciences, and theology, this first volume of two examines the arguments for and against the beauty, coherence and order shown in the natural world being related to the will or nature of a Creator. It examines the decay of a Deist universe, and the idea of the pre-givenness of norms, laws and structures as challenged by evolutionary theory and social philosophy. It describes the different responses to the collapse of order: that given by Christian philosophy scholars who still argue for the idea of a pre-given world order, and that of other scholars who see this idea of stable creation order and/or natural law as redundant and in need of a thorough rethinking. It studies the particular role that reformational philosophy has played in the discussion. It shows how, ever since its inception, almost a century ago, the concepts of order and law (principle, structure) have been at the heart of this philosophy, and that one way to characterise this tradition is as a philosophy of creation order. Reformational philosophers have maintained the notion of law as ‘holding’ for reality. This book discusses the questions that have arisen about the nature of such law: is it a religious or philosophical concept; does law just mean ‘orderliness’? How does it relate to laws of nature? Have they always existed or do they ‘emerge’ during the process of evolution?

Author : Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191519291

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The Metaphysics of Creation by Norman Kretzmann Pdf

About Aquinas: St Thomas Aquinas lived from 1224/5 to 1274, mostly in his native Italy but for a time in France. He was the greatest of the medieval philosopher/theologians, and one of the most important of all Western thinkers. His most famous books are the two summaries of his teachings, the Summa contra gentiles and the Summa theologiae. About this book: Norman Kretzmann expounds and criticizes Aquinas's natural theology of creation, which is `natural' (or philosophical) in virtue of Aquinas's having developed it without depending on the data of Scripture. The Metaphysics of Creation is a continuation of the project Kretzmann began in The Metaphysics of Theism, moving the focus from the first to the second book of Aquinas's Summa contra gentiles. Here we find Aquinas building upon his account of the existence and nature of God, arguing that the existence of things other than God must be explained by divine creation out of nothing. He develops arguments to identify God's motivation for creating, to defend the possibility of a beginningless created universe, and to explain the origin of species. He then focuses exclusively on creatures with intellects, with the result that more than half of his natural theology of creation constitutes a philosophy of mind. Kretzmann gives a masterful guide through all these arguments. As before, he not only expounds Aquinas's natural theology, but advocates it as the best historical instance available to us.

Author : John R. Betz
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781949013870

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Christ the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics by John R. Betz Pdf

The Prologue of the Gospel of John identifies Jesus Christ as the eternal Word or Logos of the Father, who became flesh for the salvation of the world. Yet the world that Christ saves is his world from the beginning, for he is also the Logos of creation, the one “through whom all things were made” (John 1:3). This divinely revealed claim has profound implications not only for theology but also for metaphysics, whose relation to Christian doctrine was undermined over the course of the twentieth century, such that the Christian faith has become an increasingly private affair rather than a credible account of reality and an invitation to participate more fully in it. With Christ, the Logos of Creation, John Betz seeks to recover a Christ-centered, analogical metaphysics and to establish the indispensability of such metaphysics for Christian theology and the Christian vision of reality. In Part I, he dispels the fog of confusion about analogical metaphysics and addresses the ecumenical issues posed by Karl Barth’s famous rejection of the analogia entis. Part II demonstrates how analogical metaphysics helps to explain Christian doctrine and sheds new light on the interrelationship between individual doctrines, including Trinitarian theology, Christology and soteriology, and theological anthropology. In Part III, Betz explores how this analogical perspective can aid in resolving a number of theological disputes, including the metaphysical relationship between nature and grace and the issue of divine humility. Finally, Part IV outlines further directions toward a fully Christological metaphysics that is proportionate both to the challenges of modern theology and the reality of our life in Christ the Logos.

Author : Liran Shia Gordon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666902990

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A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age by Liran Shia Gordon Pdf

The metaphysical and theological writings of John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308)—one of the most intriguing, albeit if now nigh-forgotten philosophers of the late Middle Ages—were seminal in the emergence of modernity. A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age: A Dialogue with Duns Scotus uses the prism of the concept of Creation as the leitmotif to assemble and interpret Scotus’s system of thought in a unified manner. In doing so, Liran Shia Gordon reframes Scotus’s metaphysics such that it confronts the challenges posed by information technology and its impact on our lives, thought, and actions. Surprisingly, although there has been great interest in the emergence and dissemination of information technology through the popular media, there has not yet been a genuine and vigorous philosophical consideration of the multiple ways information technology alters the basic categories by which we perceive and understand reality. Juxtaposing medieval philosophy and information technology offers an unconventional horizon to frame the foundational changes carried by the information revolution and reassess the relevancy of medieval philosophy.

Author : Richard M. Frank
Publisher : Peeters
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UIUC:30112051307525

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The Metaphysics of Created Being According to Abû L-Hudhayl Al-ʻAllâf by Richard M. Frank Pdf