{"product_id":"creation-and-contingency-in-early-joseph-o-p-torchia-9781498562836","title":"Creation and Contingency in Early Patristic Thought: The Beginning of All Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreation 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 Timaeus. Just as Christian thinkers sounded out the theological implications of Gn 1:1-2, the successors to Plato's Academy debated the significance of his teaching (Tim. 28b) that the world \"came to be.\" The fact that both Genesis and the Timaeus address the \"beginning of all things\" served as a means of bridging the conceptual gap between the Greek philosophical tradition and a Christian perspective rooted in scriptural teaching. Plato's Timaeus and the doxographies it inspired thus provided early Fathers of the Church with the dialectical resources for explicating their distinctive understanding of creation as a bringing into being from nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Op Joseph Torchia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1498562833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781498562836\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Op Joseph Torchia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943455162623,"sku":"9781498562836","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f2e338db-8591-47e0-92d7-d229922ef9e2.jpg?v=1681498218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creation-and-contingency-in-early-joseph-o-p-torchia-9781498562836","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}