Creation in Aquinas: ex nihilo or ex deo?

While the Christian emphasis on creation as a free and gracious gift is often juxtaposed with Neoplatonic notions of world-production as the emanation of being from the First Cause, I argue in this essay that there is no obvious contradiction between the doctrines of creation ex nihilo and emanation...

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Main Author: Soars, Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2021
In: New blackfriars
Year: 2021, Volume: 102, Issue: 1102, Pages: 950-966
Further subjects:B Liber de causis
B Aquinas
B creation ex nihilo
B Neoplatonism
B Emanation ex deo
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