Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity write by David Sedley. This book was released on 2007. Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "David Sedley's treatment of ancient views on intelligent design will transform our current thinking."—Thomas Johansen, author of Plato's Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias "Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity has the qualities of a classic. Powerfully organised round an enthralling theme, it is singularly rich in execution. The author's unsurpassed command of his material is matched by the clarity, originality, and imaginative detail of his arguments. The book is as accessible as it is authoritative. It speaks to everyone interested in Greek philosophy, and very many of its readers will go back to it again and again."—Sarah Broadie, author of Aristotle and Beyond: Essays on Metaphysics and Ethics
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity write by David Sedley. This book was released on 2008-01-16. Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members—the atomists—sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.
Critique of Intelligent Design
Critique of Intelligent Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critique of Intelligent Design write by John Bellamy Foster. This book was released on 2008-11. Critique of Intelligent Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A critique of religious dogma historically provides the basis for rational inquiry into the physical and social world. Critique of Intelligent Design is a key to understanding the forces of irrationalism that seek to undermine the natural and social sciences.
Drama of the Divine Economy
Drama of the Divine Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drama of the Divine Economy write by Paul M. Blowers. This book was released on 2012-10-11. Drama of the Divine Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The theology of creation interconnected with virtually every aspect of early Christian thought, from Trinitarian doctrine to salvation to ethics. Paul M. Blowers provides an advanced introduction to the multiplex relation between Creator and creation as an object both of theological construction and religious devotion in the early church. While revisiting the polemical dimension of Christian responses to Greco-Roman philosophical cosmology and heterodox Gnostic and Marcionite traditions on the origin, constitution, and destiny of the cosmos, Blowers focuses more substantially on the positive role of patristic theological interpretation of Genesis and other biblical creation texts in eliciting Christian perspectives on the multifaceted relation between Creator and creation. Greek, Syriac, and Latin patristic commentators, Blowers argues, were ultimately motivated less by purely cosmological concerns than by the urge to depict creation as the enduring creative and redemptive strategy of the Trinity. The 'drama of the divine economy', which Blowers discerns in patristic theology and piety, unfolded how the Creator invested the 'end' of the world already in its beginning, and thereupon worked through the concrete actions of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit to realize a new creation.
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity write by Anna Marmodoro. This book was released on 2015-02-26. Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.
