Creation and the God of Abraham

by David B. Burrell, Carlo Cogliati (Editor), Janet Martin Soskice (Editor)

Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace, theodicy, religious language, intercessory prayer and questions of divine temporality and as such, the foundation of a scriptural God but also the transcendent Creator of all that is. This edited collection explores how we might now recover a place for this doctrine, and with it, a consistent defence of the God of Abraham in philosophical, scientific, and theological terms. The contributions span the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and cover a wide range of sources, including historical, philosophical, scientific and theological. As such, the book develops these perspectives to reveal the relevance of this idea within the modern world.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2010

Reviews

[Eugene C. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Index is Defective on the Kindle Rental Edition!

The index is so defective it is almost unusable. If you have your Kindle on portrait mode you can’t use it at all. If you have it on landscape, half the pages are useable. The page numbering is defective as well on 50% of the pages. The Index looks like it is excellent, so this makes the defectiveness even more exasperating. I use the Kindle Reader on my iPad Air.