Ontology and providence in creation : taking ex nihilo seriously /

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Author / Creator:	Robson, Mark Ian Thomas.
Imprint:	London : Continuum, ©2008. London : Continuum, γ̐ư2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Creation. Creation -- History of doctrines. Creation. Creation -- History of doctrines. Crγ̐ưeation. Crγ̐ưeation Histoire des doctrines. Kreativitγ̐ưat. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11232674

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ISBN:	9781441138750 1441138757 9781847062154 1847062156 1282874365 9781282874367 9786612874369 6612874368
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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 creation does not do justice to the doctrine that God created the world out of nothing. Instead of possible worlds, Robson argues that we should understand possibility as indeterminate. There are no things in possibility, hence God created out of nothing. He examines how this conception of possibility is held by C.S. Peirce and how it was developed by Charles Hartshorne. Robson contends that not only does the indeterminate understanding of possibility take seriously the nothing of ex nihilo, but that it also offers a new solution to the problem of evil.
Other form:	Print version: Robson, Mark Ian Thomas. Ontology and providence in creation. London : Continuum, ©2008 9781847062154 Print version: Robson, Mark Ian Thomas. Ontology and providence in creation. London : Continuum, γ̐ư2008 9781847062154

Table of Contents:

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.

Ontology and providence in creation : taking ex nihilo seriously /

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