Creation and the God of Abraham

List of contributors Preface David D. Burrell and Janet M. Soskice Introduction Carlo Cogliati 1. Creation ex nihilo: early history Ernan McMullin 2. Creatio ex nihilo: its Jewish and Christian foundations Janet M. Soskice 3. The act of creation with its theological consequences David D. Burrell 4. Scotistic metaphysics and creation ex nihilo Alexander Broadie 5. Creation and the context of theology and science in Maimonides and Crescas Dan Davies 6. Creation: Avicenna's metaphysical account Rahim Acar 7. Four conceptions of creatio ex nihilo and the compatibility question Pirooz Fatoorchi 8. Will, necessity, and creation as monistic theophany in the Islamic philosophical tradition Ibrahim Kalim 9. Trinity, motion and creation ex nihilo Simon Oliver 10. The big bang, quantum cosmology and creatio ex nihilo William R. Stoeger 11. What is written into creation? Simon Conway Morris 12. Creatio ex nihilo and dual causality James R. Pambrun 13. God and creatures acting: the idea of double agency Thomas F. Tracy 14. Thomas Aquinas on knowing and coming to know: the Beatific vision and learning from contingency Eugene F. Rogers.