The metaphysics of creation [[electronic resource] ] : Aquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles II / / Norman Kretzmann

• Autore: Kretzmann Norman
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999, c1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (498 p.)
• Disciplina: 213/.092
• Soggetto topico: Creation; Metaphysics; Natural theology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [440]-449) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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. â€?Divine truthâ€?""; ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""Five. Could the Created World have Existed for Ever?""""1. â€?The eternity of the worldâ€?""; ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""3. Reasons why creation includes intellective substances""
• Sommario/riassunto: Norman 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The metaphysics of creation
• ISBN: 0-19-159787-2; 0-19-151929-4; 9786612051883; 1-282-05188-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777704003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II