Gersonides on the Problem of Volitional Creation
Gersonides and Maimonides agree that the denial of volitional creation has theologically unacceptable consequences. Both are forced to confront the question, therefore, of how a perfect, simplex, and changeless God can create the world by an act of volition. Maimonides' account of divine attrib...
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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College
1980
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Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 1980, Volume: 51, Pages: 111-128 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Middle Ages
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RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages TE Middle Ages |
Further subjects: | B
Jewish theology
B Leṿi ben Gershon (1288-1344) |
Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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