Theological Objections to a Metaphysicalist Interpretation of Creation
It has been argued that divine creation should be understood solely in a metaphysical and theological sense, and not within the context of modern cosmology and biology. In this way, any conflict between science and religion is totally avoided. William Carroll is a scholar of Aquinas who has justifie...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2020]
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Theology and science
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 290-302 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CF Christianity and Science HB Old Testament KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
theistic naturalism
B Origins B Creation B Aquinas B Metaphysics B Causality |
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| Summary: | It has been argued that divine creation should be understood solely in a metaphysical and theological sense, and not within the context of modern cosmology and biology. In this way, any conflict between science and religion is totally avoided. William Carroll is a scholar of Aquinas who has justified this position, citing arguments made by Thomas, specifically that creation does not involve change. Here, I argue that this is a major distortion of Aquinas’ views and that the ontology of creation formulated is fundamentally incoherent. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Thomas Aquinas and William E. Carroll on Creatio ex Nihilo: A Response to Joseph Hannon’s “Theological Objections to a Metaphysicalist Interpretation of Creation” (2021)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1755545 |