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.
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