Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: |
Kretzmann Norman
![]() |
Titolo: |
The metaphysics of creation : Aquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles II / / Norman Kretzmann
![]() |
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. �Divine truth�""; ""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. �The eternity of the world�""; ""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.: | 9910824908803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |