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Creation ex nihilo : origins, development, contemporary challenges / edited by Gary A. Anderson and Markus Bockmuehl.

Contributor(s): Anderson, Gary A, 1955- [editor.] | Bockmuehl, Markus N. A [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: vii, 421 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780268102531; 0268102538Subject(s): Creation -- History of doctrines | Creationism -- History of doctrines | Evolution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- HistoryDDC classification: 231.7/65 LOC classification: BT695 | .C685 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Markus Bockmuehl -- Creatio ex nihilo and the Bible / Gary A. Anderson -- Why creatio ex nihilo for theology today? / Janet Soskice -- Creatio ex nihilo in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible / Richard J. Clifford, S.J. -- Being and nothingness in the book of Revelation / Sean M. McDonough -- "The most perfect work": the role of matter in Philo of Alexandria / Gregory E. Sterling -- Creatio ex nihilo in Athanasius of Alexandria's Against the Greeks - On the Incarnation / Khaled Anatolios -- Creatio ex nihilo in the thought of Saint Augustine / John C. Cavadini -- Aquinas and Bonaventure on creation / Joseph Wawrykow -- Creator, text, and law: Torah as independent power in rabbinic Judaism / Tzvi Novick -- Reason, will, and purpose: what's at stake for Maimonides and his followers in the doctrine of creation / Daniel Davies -- Spinoza and the eclipse of creation from nothing / Cyril O'Regan -- The doctrine of creation and the problem of the miraculous in the modern theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher / Ruth Jackson -- The devil's march: creatio ex nihilo, the problem of evil, and a few Dostoyevskian meditations / David Bentley Hart -- What does physical cosmology say about creation from nothing? / Adam D. Hincks, S.J. -- Eyesight with insight: cosmology and second-person inspiration / Andrew Pinsent -- Looking back toward the origin: scientific cosmology as creation ex nihilo considered "from the inside" / Andrew Davison.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Markus Bockmuehl -- Creatio ex nihilo and the Bible / Gary A. Anderson -- Why creatio ex nihilo for theology today? / Janet Soskice -- Creatio ex nihilo in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible / Richard J. Clifford, S.J. -- Being and nothingness in the book of Revelation / Sean M. McDonough -- "The most perfect work": the role of matter in Philo of Alexandria / Gregory E. Sterling -- Creatio ex nihilo in Athanasius of Alexandria's Against the Greeks - On the Incarnation / Khaled Anatolios -- Creatio ex nihilo in the thought of Saint Augustine / John C. Cavadini -- Aquinas and Bonaventure on creation / Joseph Wawrykow -- Creator, text, and law: Torah as independent power in rabbinic Judaism / Tzvi Novick -- Reason, will, and purpose: what's at stake for Maimonides and his followers in the doctrine of creation / Daniel Davies -- Spinoza and the eclipse of creation from nothing / Cyril O'Regan -- The doctrine of creation and the problem of the miraculous in the modern theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher / Ruth Jackson -- The devil's march: creatio ex nihilo, the problem of evil, and a few Dostoyevskian meditations / David Bentley Hart -- What does physical cosmology say about creation from nothing? / Adam D. Hincks, S.J. -- Eyesight with insight: cosmology and second-person inspiration / Andrew Pinsent -- Looking back toward the origin: scientific cosmology as creation ex nihilo considered "from the inside" / Andrew Davison.

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