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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Taking ex nihilo Seriously
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ISBN
9781441105615
Publisert
2015
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Continuum
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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