Religion and Creation

Religion and Creation......Page 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 4
PART I FOUR SCRIPTURAL TRADITIONS......Page 5
Introduction......Page 6
The Hebrew Prophetic Tradition......Page 8
Prophetic Visions of God......Page 10
The Power of God......Page 16
Divine Providence......Page 18
The Passionate God: A Jewish View......Page 22
Problematic Aspects of the Biblical Tradition......Page 27
The Mystery of Evil......Page 31
The Interpretation of Biblical Narratives......Page 33
The Incarnate God......Page 40
The Relationality of Being......Page 44
The Doctrine of Election......Page 49
Two New Testament Pictures of God......Page 52
God as Trinity......Page 57
Mohammed Iqbal: A Muslim View of God......Page 62
God as the Infinite Ego......Page 64
Iqbal and the Classical Tradition......Page 66
Models of Deity......Page 69
God in the Koran: Unity and Power......Page 71
Divine Determinism and Freedom......Page 74
God as Essentially Creative......Page 77
Brahman......Page 80
The Two Forms of Brahman......Page 82
The Principle of Non-Duality......Page 86
The Immortality of the Self......Page 88
Brahman as Active and Inactive......Page 90
The Thought of Aurobindo......Page 93
The Evolutionary Principle......Page 96
The Causes of Suffering......Page 98
The Claim to a Perennial Philosophy......Page 101
The Search for Coherence......Page 103
The Perfection of the Divine Being......Page 106
PART II ON SPEAKING OF GOD AS CREATOR......Page 110
Three Alternative World-Views......Page 111
Non-Cognitive Belief in God......Page 114
The Relation of Practice and Theory in Religion......Page 118
The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Religious Commitment......Page 121
The Sense of the Infinite......Page 126
The Necessity of Theological Realism......Page 128
Apophatic Theology......Page 131
Speaking Literally about God......Page 135
God as Being-Itself......Page 138
Dialectical Theism......Page 141
Tillich and Supranaturalism......Page 144
Time and Providence in Tillich......Page 146
Metaphor......Page 148
Metaphor, Analogy, and Literal Speech......Page 151
The Classical Doctrine of Analogy......Page 154
PART III THE NATURE OF THE CREATOR GOD......Page 158
Revelation and the Idea of God......Page 159
God as the Greatest Conceivable Being......Page 161
The Divine Nature: Power......Page 165
The Idea of Maximal Power......Page 167
The Given Nature of God......Page 171
Divine Necessity and Evil......Page 172
The Necessity of Creation......Page 177
Necessity and Freedom......Page 179
The Divine Perfections......Page 182
Divine Desires......Page 185
Immutable and Contingent Divine Properties......Page 186
Greek Ideas of Perfection......Page 192
Absolute Explanation......Page 194
The Value of Creativity......Page 199
The Idea of Divine Necessity......Page 203
The First Cause Argument......Page 205
God as Omnipotential......Page 209
The Doctrine of Pure Actuality......Page 211
The Essential Goodness of Creation......Page 215
The Existence of Evil......Page 219
The Creation of Free Creators......Page 222
Creation and Necessity......Page 225
The Classical Account of Creation......Page 227
The Classical Account of Divine Knowledge of Creation......Page 230
Creation and Freedom......Page 232
Divine Foreknowledge and Temporality......Page 236
The Relational Nature of Divine Love......Page 239
Experiential Knowledge......Page 242
Divine Happiness......Page 244
Particularity and Suffering......Page 247
The Divine Experience......Page 249
The God Who Suffers......Page 253
Divine Being in Relation......Page 256
Divine Kenosis......Page 258
Providence and Freedom......Page 261
The Timelessness of God......Page 266
The Temporality of God......Page 268
The Reality of Time......Page 270
The Redemption of the Past......Page 273
The Openness of the Future......Page 275
The Beginning of Time......Page 278
Divine Imagination......Page 279
Dual-Aspect Theism......Page 282
PART IV COSMOLOGY AND THE TRINITARIAN GOD......Page 285
12 Creation and Modern Cosmology......Page 286
Augustine on Time......Page 287
Creation and Cosmology......Page 292
Relativity and Simultaneity......Page 299
A Model of Creative Freedom......Page 302
Nomological and Axiological Explanation......Page 308
The Idea of Creative Emergence......Page 310
God in Relation to the Universe......Page 315
The Necessity of Creation......Page 317
The Idea of a Social Trinity......Page 320
The Basis of Trinitarian Doctrine......Page 328
The Development of Trinitarian Doctrine......Page 330
The Threefold God......Page 336
Concluding Remarks......Page 340
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Z......Page 347
H......Page 348
S......Page 349
W......Page 350