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| Author | : Gregory T. Doolan |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813215234 |
Gregory T. Doolan provides here the first detailed consideration of the divine ideas as causal principles. He examines Thomas Aquinas's philosophical doctrine of the divine ideas and convincingly argues that it is an essential element of his metaphysics
| Author | : Thomas M. Ward |
| Publisher | : Elements in Religion and Monot |
| Total Pages | : 81 |
| Release | : 2020-09-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108819699 |
This Element defends a version of the classical theory of divine ideas, the containment exemplarist theory of divine ideas. The classical theory holds that God has ideas of all possible creatures, that these ideas partially explain why God's creation of the world is a rational and free personal action, and that God does not depend on anything external to himself for having the ideas he has. The containment exemplarist version of the classical theory holds that God's own nature is the exemplar of all possible creatures, and therefore that God's ideas of possible creatures are in some sense ideas of himself. Containment exemplarism offers a monotheism fit for metaphysics, insofar as it is coherent, simple, and explanatorily powerful; and offers a metaphysics fit for monotheism, insofar as it leaves God truly worthy of the unconditional worship which Christians, along with Jews and Muslims, aspire to offer to God.
| Author | : Gregory T. Doolan |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813218861 |
Scholars present studies on key philosophical and historical issues in the field. Though varied, the investigations address three major metaphysical themes: the subject matter of metaphysics, metaphysical aporiae, and philosophical theology.
| Author | : Andrew Davison |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2019-08 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1108483283 |
Offers a substantial discussion of a central theme in Christian theology - that everything comes from and depends upon God.
| Author | : Tyler R. Wittman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2018-11-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1108636535 |
The legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology.
| Author | : Alexander R. Pruss |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2011-05-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441145168 |
Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers. On his way to that account, Pruss surveys a number of historical approaches and argues that logicist approaches to possibility are implausible. The notion of possible worlds appears to be useful for many purposes, such as the analysis of counterfactuals or elucidating the nature of propositions and properties. This usefulness of possible worlds makes for a second general question: Are there any possible worlds and, if so, what are they? Are they concrete universes as David Lewis thinks, Platonic abstracta as per Robert M. Adams and Alvin Plantinga, or maybe linguistic or mathematical constructs such as Heller thinks? Or is perhaps Leibniz right in thinking that possibilia are not on par with actualities and that abstracta can only exist in a mind, so that possible worlds are ideas in the mind of God?
| Author | : Mikko Posti |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2020-04-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004429727 |
In Medieval Theories of Divine Providence 1250-1350 Mikko Posti presents a historical and philosophical study of the doctrine of divine providence in 13th- and 14th-century Latin philosophical theology.
| Author | : Gregory E. Ganssle |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2021-12-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1000530736 |
This book discusses various aspects of God’s causal activity. Traditional theology has long held that God acts in the world and interrupts the normal course of events by performing special acts. Although the tradition is unified in affirming that God does create, conserve, and act, there is much disagreement about the details of divine activity. The chapters in this book fruitfully explore these disagreements about divine causation. The chapters are divided into two sections. The first explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to Hume. The second section addresses a variety of contemporary issues related to God’s causal activity. These chapters include defenses of the possibility of special acts of God, proposals of models of divine causation, and analyses of divine conservation. Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and metaphysics.
| Author | : Carl A. Vater |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813235545 |
A theory of divine ideas was the standard Scholastic response to the question how does God know and produce the world? A theory was deemed to be successful only if it simultaneously upheld that God has perfect knowledge and that he is supremely simple and one. In articulating a theory of divine ideas, Carl Vater answers two sorts of questions. First, what is an idea? Does God have ideas? Are there many divine ideas? What sort of existence does an idea enjoy? Second, he answers questions about the scope of divine ideas: does God have ideas of individuals, species, genera, accidents, matter, evil, etc.? How many divine ideas are there? These questions cause the Scholastic authors to articulate clearly, among other things, their positions on the nature of knowledge, relation, exemplar causality, participation, infinity, and possibility. An author's theory of divine ideas, then, is the locus for him to test the coherence of his metaphysical, epistemological, and logical principles. Many of the debates over divine ideas have their roots in disagreements over whether a given theory adequately articulates one of the underlying positions or the overall coherence of those positions. Peter John Olivi, for example, argues that his predecessors' theories of knowledge and theories of relations are at odds, and this critique results in a major shift in theories of divine ideas. God's Knowledge of the World examines theories of divine ideas from approximately 1250?1325 AD (St. Bonaventure through Ockham). It will be the only work dedicated to categorizing and comparing the major theories of divine ideas in the Scholastic period.
| Author | : Michael J. Dodds |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2012-09-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813219892 |
Provides a sustained account of how the thought of Aquinas may be used in conjunction with contemporary science to deepen our understanding of divine action and address such issues as creation, providence, prayer, and miracles.
