LEADER 05240nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910777704003321 005 20230422045850.0 010 $a0-19-159787-2 010 $a0-19-151929-4 010 $a9786612051883 010 $a1-282-05188-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756376 035 $a(EBL)3053137 035 $a(OCoLC)363568224 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000201765 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12028342 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201765 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10246098 035 $a(PQKB)10129757 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000088268 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126732 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088268 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10071289 035 $a(PQKB)10657318 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053137 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3053137 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10283427 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL205188 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756376 100 $a19981023h19991998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe metaphysics of creation$b[electronic resource] $eAquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles II /$fNorman Kretzmann 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1999, c1998 215 $a1 online resource (498 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-924654-8 311 $a0-19-823787-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [440]-449) and indexes. 327 $a""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""One. Nature from the Top Down""; ""1. The aims of the book""; ""2. Aquinas's natural theology""; ""3. SCG II as the thematic continuation of SCG I""; ""4. a???Divine trutha???""; ""5. God's immanent and transeunt activity""; ""6. The positive results of meditating on creation""; ""7. The corrective results of meditating on creation""; ""8. How philosophy and the faith are taught""; ""9. Aquinas's plan for SCG II""; ""Two. From God to Everything Else""; ""1. SCG II as the logical continuation of SCG I""; ""2. Considering the source"" 327 $a""3. The actus purus argument""""4. God's active power""; ""5. How to attribute power to God""; ""6. How to attribute relations to God""; ""7. God as the source of everything else""; ""8. Argument E/U""; ""Three. Creation as Doubly Universal Production""; ""1. For all things the cause of being""; ""2. Out of no antecedent matter""; ""3. Not even prime matter""; ""4. Not through movement or change""; ""5. Something out of nothing""; ""6. Movement and change considered more closely""; ""7. No successiveness in creating""; ""8. No body can create""; ""9. Creating belongs to God alone"" 327 $a""Four. Creation's Modalities""""1. Why would God create?""; ""2. The scope of God's creative power""; ""3. Separated substances as counter-instances to the single-effect account of creation""; ""4. Corporeal matter as a counter-instance to the single-effect account of creation""; ""5. Omnipotence and absolute possibility""; ""6. The modality of creative action""; ""7. The modalities of intellection and volition""; ""8. Justice, goodness, and God's plan as possible grounds for obligatory creation""; ""9. Kinds of necessity in created things"" 327 $a""Five. Could the Created World have Existed for Ever?""""1. a???The eternity of the worlda???""; ""2. The modalities of beginningless creation""; ""3. The created world need not have existed for ever""; ""4. Beginninglessness based on considerations of God""; ""5. Beginninglessness based on considerations of created things""; ""6. Beginninglessness based on considerations of the making of things""; ""7. Purported proofs that the world must have begun to exist""; ""8. Aquinas's probable argument for the greater goodness of a temporally finite world""; ""Six. The Origin of Species"" 327 $a""1. From producing to distinguishing""""2. Distinguishing and furnishing""; ""3. Aquinas's non-creationist reading of Genesis 1""; ""4. Distinguishing distinguished, broadly""; ""5. The complex product of an absolutely simple producer""; ""6. Distinguishing distinguished, more narrowly""; ""7. A mind behind the scenes""; ""8. Not by chance""; ""9. Not by matter alone""; ""10. Manifold manifestation""; ""11. God's choice of this world""; ""Seven. Intellects""; ""1. Considering created things themselves""; ""2. Considering intellective creatures only"" 327 $a""3. Reasons why creation includes intellective substances"" 330 8 $aNorman Kretzmann expounds and criticises Aquinas' theology of creation, which is natural (or philosophical) in that Aquinas developed it without depending on the data of Scripture. 606 $aCreation 606 $aMetaphysics 606 $aNatural theology 615 0$aCreation. 615 0$aMetaphysics. 615 0$aNatural theology. 676 $a213/.092 700 $aKretzmann$b Norman$0160804 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777704003321 996 $aThe metaphysics of creation$93698450 997 $aUNINA