Creation and the God of Abraham

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Develops perspectives of the foundational doctrine of creation from Judaism, Christianity and Islam, exploring their relevance in the modern world.

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List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Creation ex nihilo: early history	p. 11
Creatio ex nihilo: its Jewish and Christian foundations	p. 24
The act of creation with its theological consequences	p. 40
Scotistic metaphysics and creation ex nihilo	p. 53
Creation and the context of theology and science in Maimonides and Crescas	p. 65
Creation: Avicenna's metaphysical account	p. 77
Four conceptions of creatio ex nihilo and the compatibility questions	p. 91
Will, necessity and creation as monistic theophany in the Islamic philosophical tradition	p. 107
Trinity, motion and creation ex nihilo	p. 133
The Big Bang, quantum cosmology and creatio ex nihilo	p. 152
What is written into creation?	p. 176
Creatio ex nihilo and dual causality	p. 192
God and creatures acting: the idea of double agency	p. 221
Thomas Aquinas on knowing and coming to know: the beatific vision and learning from contingency	p. 238
Index	p. 259
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