Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things

by Joseph Torchia

Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things explores the interface between philosophy and theology in the development of the seminal Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo. While its main focus lies in an analysis of first to third century patristic accounts of creation, it is likewise attuned to their parallelism with Middle Platonic commentaries on Plato's theory of cosmological origins in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498562833
• ISBN13: 9781498562836
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"