Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: THE ONTOLOGY OF CREATIO EX NIHILO -- Leibniz's ontology of the possible -- The ontology of modern modal theories -- An alternative account concerning possibilia -- Vagueness and indeterminateness -- Knowledge, possibility and Ockham -- Divine capacities -- PART II: PROVIDENTIAL ASPECTS OF CREATIO EX NIHILO -- Theories of Providence -- Providence and indeterminateness -- God and chance -- PART III: CREATIVITY AND CREATIO EX NIHILO -- The notion of creativity -- Externalism and the creation of meaning.

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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 crea