Creatio Ex Nihilo
1st Edition
Published on 9. July 2004
214 pages
978-0-567-45622-9 (ISBN)
Description
A unique study challenging the assumption that the doctrine of 'creation out of nothing' was inherited by Christianity along with the Jewish scriptures which the Church adopted.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-45622-9 (9780567456229)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface to English Edition
- Foreword
- Some English Translations of Foreign Books Cited in the Notes
- 1. The Problem of the Creation of the World in Hellenistic Judaism and EariyChristianity before the Gnostic Crisis in the Second Century
- The starting-point
- I. World-creation in Hellenistic Judaism
- Philo
- Factors tending to the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in Judaism
- Limits of Jewish statements about creation
- II. World-creation in early Christianity
- Beginnings of anti-heretical polemic
- The state of the question in the first half of the second century
- 2. The Question of the Origin of the World in Christian Gnosticism
- I. The gnostic approach to the problem
- II. Marcion
- 3. The Creation of the World in Basilides and the Valentinians
- I. Basilides
- II. Valentinus
- The myth of the Valentinian school
- 4. Christian and Platonist Cosmology
- Christianity as the true philosophy
- Aristides
- Justin
- The treatise 'On the Resurrection'
- Athenagoras
- Hermogenes
- 5. The Church Doctrine of Creatio Ex Nibilo
- Conflict on two fronts against gnosis and philosophy
- I. Tatian
- Academic debates at Rome
- II. Theophilus of Antioch
- III. Irenaeus
- Recapitulation
- Editions of Ancient Texts
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Ancient Authors and Sources
- A
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- E
- F
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- I
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- V
- X
- Index of Modern Authors
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- U
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- Z
- Index of Subjects
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