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  title info:
    title: Aquinas and the metaphysics of creation
  name:
    name part: Kerr, Gaven
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 252 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation. Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his works in order to present a unified Thomistic metaphysics of creation. Kerr argues that Aquinas's metaphysics of creation, wherein God is conceived as the absolute source of all that exists, is the backbone of his philosophical theology. Throughout his writings, the framework of the absolute dependence of creatures on God and of the independence of God as existence itself is ever present. Without understanding this aspect of Aquinas's philosophical thought, Kerr suggests, it is impossible to understand his philosophy of God. When it comes to metaphysics, Thomas is committed to thinking through the issues involved therein on the basis of natural reason. Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation demonstrates Aquinas's belief that we must arrive at an affirmation of the existence of God on the basis of a wider metaphysical view as to the constitution of reality, a view that does not presuppose divine truths but can indeed establish them.
  table of contents: Philosophies of creation -- The agent of creation -- The meaning of creation -- The causality of creation -- The object of creation -- The history of creation -- The end of creation.
  note: Gaven Kerr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-247) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aquinas, Saint
      name part: Thomas
      name part: 1225?-1274
  subject:
    topic: Creation
  classification: B765.T54 K474 2019
  classification: 110.92
  identifier: 9780190941307
  identifier: 0190941308
  identifier: 9780190941338
  identifier: 2019009761
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190302
    record change date: 20191021082009.0
    record identifier: in00003989047