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Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought
- The Beginning of All Things
Engelsk Paperback
Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought
- The Beginning of All Things
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9781498562836
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1498562833
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Udg. Dato:
15 dec 2020
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
220mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
15 dec 2020
Forfatter(e):
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