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Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World
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The Church Fathers hold by and large that God created the world from nothing, by an act of will, at a particular time. This is a radical departure from the Greek paradigm that there is no ex nihilo creation; and furthermore, an apparent violation of the causal principle, widely held in antiquity, that 'like causes like'. ... The debate on divine creation [resulting from this disparity] was lively in late antiquity. Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-c.395) is a particularly interesting player in this d...
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+ Castillo Aranda, A
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University of Oxford
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HUMS
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Philosophy Faculty
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- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Divine Powers in Late Antiquity
- Chapter number:
- 11
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-01
- Source identifiers:
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633507
- ISBN-10:
- 019876720X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780198767206
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