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Creation as Emanation

Author : Therese Bonin
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268159114
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Creation as Emanation written by Therese Bonin and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2001-04-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liber de causis (De causis et processu universitatis a prima causa), a monotheistic reworking of Proclus’ Elements of Theology, was translated from Arabic into Latin in the twelfth century, with an attribution to Aristotle. Considering this Neoplatonic text a product of Aristotle's school and even the completion of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Albert the Great concluded his series of Aristotelian paraphrases by commenting on it. To do so was to invite controversy, since accidents of translation had made many readers think that the Liber de causis taught that God made only the first creature, which in turn created the diverse multitude of lesser things. Thus, Albert’s contemporaries in the Christian West took the text to uphold the supposedly Aristotelian doctrine that from the One only one thing can emanate—a doctrine they rejected, believing as they did that God freely determined the number and kinds of creatures. Albert, however, defended the philosophers against the theologians of his day, denying that the thesis "from the One only one proceeds" removed God’s causality from the diversity and multiplicity of our world. This Albert did by appealing to a greater theologian, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, and equating the being that is the subject of metaphysics with the procession of Being from God's intellect, a procession Dionysius described in On the Divine Names. Creation as Emanation examines Albert's reading of the Liber de causis with an eye toward two questions: First, how does Albert view the relation between faith and reason, so that he can identify creation from nothing with emanation from God? And second, how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism, so that he can avoid the misreadings of his fellow theologians by finding in a late-fifth-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle’s meaning?

The Design of Existence

Author : Wilson Van Dusen
Publisher : Chrysalis Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877853947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book The Design of Existence written by Wilson Van Dusen and published by Chrysalis Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to the mystical experience like no other. Viewing external reality from a multi-dimensional perspective, Van Dusen imposes that vision on our internal reality. He sets out to explore the inner landscape in detail, using the writings of 18th-century visonary Emanuel Swedenborg as a template and comparing them to works in of other spiritual traditions, especially Hinduism and Buddhism. For both Swedenborg and Van Dusen, our interior realm reflects the external cosmos. Each of us carries in our nature and character a cosmological design. This inner-outer correspondence makes possible a mystical sense of oneness.Includes contemplative and meditative exercises for daily use.

Creation Emanation and Salvation

Author : NA Hallett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401749418
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Creation Emanation and Salvation written by NA Hallett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work is intended once again to draw the attention of readers to the resources opened up by Spinoza for the elucidation of the classical problems of philosophy. Today these problems are too often taken to be merely verbal, so that answers to them so far as these are metaphysical are confidently claimed to be "nonsense." My labours will, therefore, seem to minds thus committed to have been untimely and funda mentally futile. Untimely they may have been, but unless also fu tile their untimeliness may render them the more exigent; and to judge them as futile is to claim a certainty not avaIlable to the honest sceptic. Vigorous attempts to discredit metaphysical investigation are no new thing, though the latest is, perhaps, the most thoroughgoing, and cer tainly the most self-confident. Yet it may well be argued that effective criticism of metaphysics is either itself a sort of metaphysics, or has for its foundation presuppositions that could only be metaphysically es tablished. "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recu"et." Metaphysics survives, and can only survive as a true philosophia perennis, as the catalyst of scepsis and schism - neither as inexorable dogma "once for all de livered," nor as "a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed.

The Dialectics of Creation

Author : Martin G. Poulsom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567575926
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book The Dialectics of Creation written by Martin G. Poulsom and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the philosophical components of Christian faith in creation, by analyzing the distinction and the relation between creation and its Creator.The writings of Edward Schillebeeckx and David Burrell supply a terminology of distinction and relation that shapes the discourse, following in the footsteps of Aquinas. Poulsom elucidates the relational dialectic in the thought of Schillebeeckx as a way of thinking about the Creation and offers a helpful comparison with the thought of David Burrell. Relational dialectic is an organizing principle, not only of Schillebeeckx's account of creation, but of his philosophical theology more generally. It can operate as a hermeneutic for his material on praxis and humanism, in a way that resolves some problems noted by other Schillebeeckx scholars. Poulsom's interpretation of Schillebeeckx enriches current approaches to this thinker and offers a significant contribution to thinking on the doctrine of Creation and issues surrounding the 'ontological distinction' which is of major concern in philosophical theology today.

Maimonidean studies. 2.1991(1992)

Author : Arthur Hyman
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881254341
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Maimonidean studies. 2.1991(1992) written by Arthur Hyman and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Curing Mad Truths

Author : Rémi Brague
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268105715
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Curing Mad Truths written by Rémi Brague and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation—including human beings—as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving. Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.

Creation and the Persistence of Evil

Author : Jon D. Levenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691029504
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Creation and the Persistence of Evil written by Jon D. Levenson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-provoking return to the original Hebrew conception of God, which questions accepted conceptions of divine omnipotence, Jon Levenson defines God's authorship of the world as a consequence of his victory in his struggle with evil. He traces a flexible conception of God to the earliest Hebrew sources, arguing, for example, that Genesis 1 does not describe the banishment of evil but the attempt to contain the menace of evil in the world, a struggle that continues today.

Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

Author : James A. Diamond
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004233504
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought by : James A. Diamond

Download or read book Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought written by James A. Diamond and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the 'medieval' function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in this work addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.

The End For Which God Created the World

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End For Which God Created the World written by Jonathan Edwards and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic is organized as follows: Introduction Containing Explanations of Terms and General Positions Chapter I. Wherein Is Considered, What Reason Teaches Concerning This Affair. Section I. Some things observed in general, which reason dictates Section II. Some further observations concerning those things which reason leads us to suppose God aimed at in the creation of the world Section III. Wherein it is considered how, on the supposition of God’s making the aforementioned things his last end, he manifests a supreme and ultimate regard to himself in all his works Section IV. Some objections considered, which may be made against the reasonableness of what has been said of God making himself his last end. Chapter II. Wherein If It Is Inquired, What Is To Be Learned From Holy Scriptures, Concerning God’s Last End In The Creation Of The World Section I. The Scriptures represent God as making himself his own last end in the creation of the world Section II. Wherein some positions are advanced concerning a just method of arguing in this affair, from what we find in the Holy Scriptures Section III. Particular texts of Scripture, that show that God’s glory is an ultimate end of the creation Section IV. Places of Scripture that lead us to suppose, that God created the world for his name, to make his perfections known; and that he made it for his praise. Section V. Places of Scripture from whence it may be argued, that communication of good to the creature, was one thing which God had in view, as an ultimate end of the creation of the world. Section VI. Wherein is considered what is meant by the glory of God and the name of God in Scripture, when spoken of as God’s end in his works Section VII. Showing that the ultimate End of the Creation of the World is but one, and what that one end is.

Emanations

Author : PRATHNA. LOR
Publisher : Buckrider Books
ISBN 13 : 9781989496497
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Emanations written by PRATHNA. LOR and published by Buckrider Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Prathna Lor's first full-length collection we are introduced to a unique voice in Canadian poetry. Moving fluidly between prose poems and more fractured, open verse, Lor meditates on voice, on disaster and on identity, pushing always against commodification, against a consumable narrative.

Christianity and Creation

Author : James P. Mackey
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826419071
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and Creation written by James P. Mackey and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Mackey has written a bold one-volume systematic theology in eight chapters on creation, fall, salvation, God, creed, code, cult and church constitution.

Jonathan Edwards' Concerning The End for Which God Created the World

Author : Walter J. Schultz
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647564869
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Edwards' Concerning The End for Which God Created the World written by Walter J. Schultz and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exposition of Jonathan Edwards' argumentation in his dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World. In addition to stating Edwards' theses regarding God's end and motivation in creation, this book identifies and discusses the assumptions of his argumentation, analyses and explains its crucial components, and explores its philosophical implications. These implications include a version of exemplarism (i.e., the nature of God's ideas for creation), dispositionalism (i.e., the characteristics of God which explain God's motivation), and emanationism (i.e., what God shares of himself with persons who have a living faith in Christ). These entail a view of idealism (i.e., a view of the ultimate ontological ground of the universe), God's temporal nature, continuous creationism (i.e., how God sustains creation), a version of panentheism (i.e., how God, who is infinite, is related to creation, from which God is absolutely distinct), and occasionalism (i.e., the nature of causation of physical events or states of creation). These concepts and what they entail constitute a complete metaphysical system, providing a thoroughgoing divine action understanding of the foundation of reality. For Jonathan Edwards, God's acting according to his plans for his purposes in Christ is fundamental to all things. Were we to have an understanding of how the fundamental concepts of science, mathematics, and ordinary experience are related in reality to the God who acts for his original ultimate end in creation, sustaining the universe, while providentially guiding its affairs, and working redemption, we would have the opportunity to develop these as he had hoped, he pointed the way for others to follow.

How to Think About God

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0020160224
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book How to Think About God written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-07-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Adler extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas without relying on faith, mysticism, or science. Instead, he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent upon a suspension of disbelief. Lightning Print On Demand Title

The World and God Are Not-Two

Author : Daniel Soars
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531502067
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The World and God Are Not-Two written by Daniel Soars and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The “two”—“God” and “World” cannot be added up as separate, enumerable realities or contrasted with each other against some common background because God does not belong in any category and creatures are ontologically constituted by their relation to the Creator. In exploring the unique character of this distinctive relation, Soars turns to Sara Grant’s work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. He develops Grant’s work and that of the earlier Calcutta School by drawing explicit attention to the Neoplatonic themes in Aquinas that provide some of the most fruitful areas for comparative engagement with Vedānta. To the Christian, the fact that the world exists only as dependent on God means that “world” and “God” must be ontologically distinct because God’s existence does not depend on the world. To the Advaitin, this simultaneously means that “World” and “God” cannot be ontologically separate either. The language of non-duality allows us to see that both positions can be held coherently together without entailing any contradiction or disagreement at the level of fundamental ontology. What it means to be “world” does not and cannot exclude what it means to be “God.”

Augustine's Early Theology of Image

Author : Gerald P. Boersma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019049350X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Augustine's Early Theology of Image written by Gerald P. Boersma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean for Christ to be the "image of God"? And, if Christ is the "image of God," can the human person also unequivocally be understood to be the "image of God"? Augustine's Early Theology of Image examines Augustine's conception of the imago dei and makes the case that it represents a significant departure from the Latin pro-Nicene theologies of Hilary of Poitiers, Marius Victorinus, and Ambrose of Milan only a generation earlier. Augustine's predecessors understood the imago dei principally as a Christological term designating the unity of divine substance. But, Gerald P. Boersma argues, Augustine affirms that Christ is an image of equal likeness, while the human person is an image of unequal likeness. Boersma's careful study thus argues that a Platonic and participatory evaluation of the nature of "image" enables Augustine's early theology of the image of God to move beyond that of his Latin predecessors and affirm the imago dei both of Christ and of the human person.

Aquinas on Creation

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442857
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Aquinas on Creation written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six articles that comprise Book 2, Distinction 1, Question 1 of Aquinas' Writings on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard represent his earliest and most succinct account of creation. These texts contain the essential Thomistic doctrines on the subject, and are here translated into English for the first time, along with an introduction and analysis. In Article One Aquinas argues, against Manichean dualism, that there is one ultimate cause of all created being; in so doing he gives three proofs for the existence of the Creator and the essential features of his answer to the problem of evil. Thomas establishes his definition of creation in Article Two, providing the needed distinctions between philosophical and theological senses of creation. Emanationism and the problem of whether there can be any intermediary causes in God's act of creation are the subject of Article Three. The next article demonstrates that although God is the cause of all created being, nevertheless creatures are true causes in nature. Article Five argues that it is from revelation alone that we know that the world had a temporal beginning, and that the philosophical arguments that purport to show either the necessity or impossibility of the temporal beginning are not persuasive. A detailed exposition of the meaning of the first sentence of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," follows in Article Six.

Gilles Deleuze

Author : Todd May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139442909
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Gilles Deleuze written by Todd May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: how might we live? The author then goes on to explain how Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living thing that provides ways of conducting our lives that we may not have dreamed of. Through this approach the full range of Deleuze's philosophy is covered. Offering a lucid account of a highly technical philosophy, Todd May's introduction will be widely read amongst those in philosophy, political science, cultural studies and French studies.