Creation as Emanation: The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Great’s On the Causes and the Procession of the Universe

by Therese Bonin, Albertus Magnus

Creation as Emanation examines Albert's reading of the Liber de causis with an eye toward two questions: First, how does Albert view the relation between faith and reason, so that he can identify creation from nothing with emanation from God? And second, how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism, so that he can avoid the misreadings of his fellow theologians by finding in a late-fifth-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle’s meaning?

188 pages, Hardcover

First published November 19, 2000