The difference nothing makes : creation, Christ, contemplation /

This book explores the doctrinal, social, and spiritual significance of a central yet insufficiently understood tenet in Christian theology: creation "from nothing." In this original study, Brian D. Robinette offers an extended meditation on the idea of creation out of nothing as it applie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinette, Brian DuWayne (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2023]
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3313492
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART 1 Grammar and Contemplation
  • One The Difference Nothing Makes
  • Two Undergoing Something from Nothing
  • PART 2 Christ as Concentrated Creation
  • Three Jesus and the Non-Other
  • Four Strange Victory
  • PART 3 Purgation and Union
  • Five On the Contemplative Consummation of Atheism
  • Six Return to Love
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index