Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought

Released on by Joseph Torchia, OP
preview-18

  • Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought Book Detail

  • Author : Joseph Torchia, OP
  • Release Date : 2019-04-10
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 265
  • ISBN 13 : 1498562825
  • File Size : 50,50 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought by Joseph Torchia, OP PDF Summary

Book Description: Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things explores the interface between philosophy and theology in the development of the seminal Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo. While its main focus lies in an analysis of first to third century patristic accounts of creation, it is likewise attuned to their parallelism with Middle Platonic commentaries on Plato’s theory of cosmological origins in the Timaeus. Just as Christian thinkers sounded out the theological implications of Gn 1:1-2, the successors to Plato’s Academy debated the significance of his teaching (Tim. 28b) that the world “came to be.” The fact that both Genesis and the Timaeus address the “beginning of all things” served as a means of bridging the conceptual gap between the Greek philosophical tradition and a Christian perspective rooted in scriptural teaching. Plato’s Timaeus and the doxographies it inspired thus provided early Fathers of the Church with the dialectical resources for explicating their distinctive understanding of creation as a bringing into being from nothing.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Christ the Heart of Creation

Christ the Heart of Creation

File Size : 27,27 MB
Total View : 7540 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this wide-ranging book, Rowan Williams argues that what we say about Jesus Christ is key to understanding what Christian belief says about creator and creati

The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today

The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today

File Size : 44,44 MB
Total View : 3813 Views
DOWNLOAD

In an urbane and persuasive tract for our time, the distinguished Catholic theologian combines a comprehensive metaphysics with a sensitivity to contemporary ex