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Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought

The Beginning of All Things
  • ISBN-13: 9781498562812
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Joseph Torchia O.P.
  • Price: AUD $246.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2019
  • Format: Hardback (100.00mm X 100.00mm) 264 pages Weight: 560g
  • Categories: Christianity [HRC]
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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.
Preface Introduction Part I: In the Beginning: Scriptural and Platonic Perspectives Chapter 1: A Scriptural Point of Departure Chapter 2: Plato on Cosmological Origins Chapter 3: Middle Platonic Responses Part II: The Shape of Things to Come Chapter 4: The Creation Account of Philo Judaeus Chapter 5: Creation and Cosmos in the Apostolic Fathers Part III: Forging the Doctrine Chapter 6: The Christian Platonism of Justin Martyr Chapter 7: The Christian Philosophy of Athenagoras of Athens Chapter 8: Tatian of Syria: The `Stages' of Creation Chapter 9: Theophilus of Antioch: At the Threshold Chapter 10: The Alexandrian School Epilogue: Creation as `Beginning' Bibliography Index About the Author
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