Many and the One - Creation As Participation in Augustine and Aquinas

Ge argues that by transforming participatory ontology in light of creatio ex nihilo, Augustine and Aquinas have developed a distinctively Christian metaphysics that offers a promising solution to the modern dialectic of the One and the Many.

List of contents

Introduction
Part One: Augustine's Participatory Ontology
Chapter One: Augustine's Participatory Ontology and the Question of Unity
Chapter Two: Multiplicity and Matter in Augustine's Participatory Ontology
Chapter Three: Transcendence and Immanence in Augustine's Participatory Ontology
Part Two: Aquinas's Participatory Ontology
Chapter Four: Aquinas's Theology of Participation and the Concept of Unity
Chapter Five: Multiplicity in Aquinas's Theology of Participation
Chapter Six: Transcendence and Immanence in Aquinas's Participatory Ontology
Conclusion

About the author

By Yonghua Ge

Product details

• Authors: Yonghua Ge
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781793629128
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-912-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Philosophy of religion