Ontology and Providence in Creation critically examines a particular Leibnizean inspired understanding of God's creation of the world and proposes that a different understanding should be adopted. The Leibnizean argument proposes that God's understanding encompassed a host of possible worlds, only one of which he actualized. This proposition is the current orthodoxy when philosopher and theologians talk about the philosophical understanding of creation. Mark Robson argues that this commits the Leibnizean to the notion that possibility is determinate. He proposes that this understanding of creation does not do justice to the doctrine that God created the world out of nothing. Instead of possible worlds, Robson argues that we should understand possibility as indeterminate. There are no things in possibility, hence God created out of nothing. He examines how this conception of possibility is held by C.S. Peirce and how it was developed by Charles Hartshorne. Robson contends that not only does the indeterminate understanding of possibility take seriously the nothing of ex nihilo, but that it also offers a new solution to the problem of evil.
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A fairly demanding, but eminently readable contribution to the field.
Robson draws in an illuminating way on a wide range of material -
ambitious, constructive, confidently and clearly held together-
displaying real independence of thought.
-- Ann Loades CBE, Professor Emerita, University of Durham; Professorial Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham.
In considering creation in the light of providence and the problem of evil the almost invariant starting point is the assumption that God had in prospect a set number of options between which he was forced to choose. In this fascinating and well-written book, Mark Robson challenges that claim, contending that there are good philosophical reasons for believing that, prior to their actual existence, concepts and the possibilities inherent in them have no determinate meaning. So even God must respond to what actually emerges. It is an idea that could radically alter the way in which we think of God, creation and evil. -- Professor David Brown, FBA University of St Andrews
Robson draws in an illuminating way on a wide range of material -
ambitious, constructive, confidently and clearly held together-
displaying real independence of thought.
-- Ann Loades CBE, Professor Emerita, University of Durham; Professorial Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham.
In considering creation in the light of providence and the problem of evil the almost invariant starting point is the assumption that God had in prospect a set number of options between which he was forced to choose. In this fascinating and well-written book, Mark Robson challenges that claim, contending that there are good philosophical reasons for believing that, prior to their actual existence, concepts and the possibilities inherent in them have no determinate meaning. So even God must respond to what actually emerges. It is an idea that could radically alter the way in which we think of God, creation and evil. -- Professor David Brown, FBA University of St Andrews
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Mark Ian Thomas Robson is a graduate of the universities of Newcastle and Durham. He has degrees in Philosophy and Theology (Ph.D. Durham, 2006) and in 2003 was Schoolteacher Fellow-Commoner at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK. He is Head of Philosophy at St Robert of Newminster RC School and Sixth Form College, UK.
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