God and creation : an ecumenical symposium /

God and creation : an ecumenical symposium / edited by David B. Burrell and Bernard McGinn. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1990. - xii, 328 p. ; 24 cm.

Papers presented at the Ecumenical Symposium in Comparative Religious Thought, held at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, April 26-28, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the beginning God created" : a philosophical Midrash / Seymour Feldman. -- Creation or emanation : two paradigms of reason / David B. Burrell. -- Ibn Sina's theory of the God-world relationship / Fazlur Rahman. -- Theism and divine production in ancient realist theology / John Peter Kenney. Response / Paul A. Dietrich. -- Three meanings of the idea of creation / Lenn Evan Goodman. Response / Josef Stern. -- Creation and time in Maimonides and Gersonides / Tamar Rudavsky. Response / Barry S. Kogan. -- Creation : what difference does it make? / David R. Blumenthal. Response / Jonathan W. Malino. -- Creation and Christian understanding / Robert Sokolowski. Response / David Tracy. -- Do Christian Platonists really believe in creation? / Bernard McGinn. Response / Zachary Hayes. -- Creation, being, and nonbeing / Langdon Gilkey. Response / Charles Kannengiesser. -- Creation in time in Islamic thought with special reference to al-Ghazālī / Eric L. Ormsby. Response / Paul A. Hardy. -- Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on God as al-Khāliq / Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Response / Muhsin Mahdi. -- Transcendence and distinction : metaphoric process in Isma'ili Muslim thought / Azim Nanji. Response / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

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Creation--Comparative studies--Congresses.
God--Comparative studies--Congresses.

BL226 / .G6 1990