How Process Theology Can Affirm Creation Ex Nihilo

Process Studies 29 (1):77-96 (2000)
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Most process theologians have rejected the creation of the world out of nothing, holding that our universe was created out of some antecedent universe. This article shows how on process grounds, and with faithfulness to much of what Whitehead had to say, process theologians can and should affirm the creation of our universe out of nothing. Standard process objections to this are refuted.

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10.5840/process200029123

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Rem B. Edwards
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Persuasion.[author unknown] - 1996 - Philosophy 71 (275):1-1.
God and Process.Rem B. Edwards - 1992 - In Logic, God and Metaphysics. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: pp. 41-57.

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