Aquinas and Augustine on Creation and God as 'Eternal Being'

This paper considers the centrality of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo to both Augustine and Aquinas, especially as these pertain to knowing and naming God. It argues that too much has been ceded to Augustine's purported debt to neo-Platonism, and too little to the doctrine of creation as found i...

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Author:Janet Martin Soskice
Published: S.n., s.l., 2014
Volume:95
Pages:190-207
Language:English
Periodical:New Blackfriars
Number:1056
ISSN:0028-4289
Format:Article
Topic:- Biography > Relations and Sources > Platonism - Neo-platonism
- Doctrine > The World > [Création (materia spiritualis)] > [Création (monde/matière/créature.)] > [Généralités] > [Creatio ex nihilo]
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Summary:This paper considers the centrality of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo to both Augustine and Aquinas, especially as these pertain to knowing and naming God. It argues that too much has been ceded to Augustine's purported debt to neo-Platonism, and too little to the doctrine of creation as found in the Christian (and Jewish) middle-Platonists. In these thinkers God's self-disclosure from the burning bush was of signal importance, the ‘I AM WHO I AM’ glossed in terms of God's creative and redemptive power. The theme is traced through Augustine and Aquinas before returning the Christology of the Book of Revelation.

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