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Ontology and Providence in Creation - Taking ex nihilo Seriously (Hardcover)
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Ontology and Providence in Creation - Taking ex nihilo Seriously (Hardcover)
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Ontology and Providence in Creation critically examines a
particular Leibnizean inspired understanding of God's creation of
the world and proposes that a different understanding should be
adopted. The Leibnizean argument proposes that God's understanding
encompassed a host of possible worlds, only one of which he
actualized. This proposition is the current orthodoxy when
philosopher and theologians talk about the philosophical
understanding of creation. Mark Robson argues that this commits the
Leibnizean to the notion that possibility is determinate. He
proposes that this understanding of creation does not do justice to
the doctrine that God created the world out of nothing. Instead of
possible worlds, Robson argues that we should understand
possibility as indeterminate. There are no things in possibility,
hence God created out of nothing. He examines how this conception
of possibility is held by C.S. Peirce and how it was developed by
Charles Hartshorne. Robson contends that not only does the
indeterminate understanding of possibility take seriously the
nothing of ex nihilo, but that it also offers a new solution to the
problem of evil.
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