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Medieval debates over "divine creation" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "Intelligent Design" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about creation. From three representative authors we learn that the doctrine of divine creation is supposed to invite understanding of the relation between artistic freedom and natural necessity, of the very essence of causality, and thereby of the nexus between experience (our world of empirical determinations) and reality (the absolute indetermination of eternal being). Most importantly, medieval scholarship shows us that the problems it addresses are originally inherent in the understanding itself, whereby the question of being emerges as inseparable from the question of interpretation.
Contents
Prefatory Remarks: The "Poetic Telos" of the Present Study
Introduction
"Poetic Reason" as Key to Reading Medieval Authors
Theology or Philosophy? A False Dilemma
A Universe from Nothing beyond Theology?
Medieval Scholarship as Guide in Interpretation?
Aristotle or Plato? Another false dilemma
Introduction to the problem of Context
Medieval Platonism Beyond Intellectual History
Medieval Platonism
Medieval Platonic Hermeneutics
The Problem of Creation
Creation from Nothing?
Divine Creation as Key to Freedom
What is Freedom?
Emanationism vs. Voluntarism
Creation and the Problem of Omnipotence
Logos as Key to Creation
The Essence of Human Freedom: Creation "from Nothing" as Divine Intellective Emanation
Eternity and Dialogue
Medieval Teachers of Freedom
The Philosophical Heart of Medieval Scholarship
The Problem of Voluntarism
From Intelligent Design Back to Platonism
Being and Nothingness
Evil
Creation and Platonic Ideas
Bibliography
Index
