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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Wiley-Blackwell
2021
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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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