In defence of God making stuff up: a reply to Ward
Thomas Ward explicates and defends a version of divine exemplarism called Containment Exemplarism to make good on the claim that God is a "totally original artist". According to Containment Exemplarism, (i) God ex nihilo creates according to divine ideas, (ii) divine ideas are about an asp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Religious studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 313-327 |
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B Creation B Divine Ideas B divine exemplarism B Rationality B Containment Exemplarism B Theistic Activism B Creativity |
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| Summary: | Thomas Ward explicates and defends a version of divine exemplarism called Containment Exemplarism to make good on the claim that God is a "totally original artist". According to Containment Exemplarism, (i) God ex nihilo creates according to divine ideas, (ii) divine ideas are about an aspect or part of God, and (iii) God has the ideas he has by knowing himself. Containment Exemplarism, we are told, secures the rationality and creativity of the divine creative act. I argue, first, that Ward's God is not a totally original artist since, on Containment Exemplarism, God does not act creatively in creating. Theistic Activism, the view that God makes up the ideas he has, can secure the creativity of the divine creative act. I argue, second, that Ward's argument against the rationality of God making stuff up fails. Thus, there is one version of divine exemplarism that satisfies key desiderata for divine creation. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412523000161 |