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Talking about God and Talking about Creation
Avicenna's and Thomas Aquinas' positions
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Comparing Avicennaâs and Thomas Aquinasâ positions regarding human knowledge, this volumes talks about God and the nature of the creative action and the beginning of the universe. The overall argument of the book is that their conception of theological language plays an important role in shaping their positions concerning the creation of the universe.
In the first part, their conception of the theological language and divine formal features are explored and how their positions regarding theological language differ from each other is discussed. The second part includes a comparison of their conceptions of the nature of the divine creative actionâwhich provides a good example showing how their conceptions of theological language affect the way they talk about creationâand their arguments concerning the beginning of the universe.
In the first part, their conception of the theological language and divine formal features are explored and how their positions regarding theological language differ from each other is discussed. The second part includes a comparison of their conceptions of the nature of the divine creative actionâwhich provides a good example showing how their conceptions of theological language affect the way they talk about creationâand their arguments concerning the beginning of the universe.
Rahim Acar, Ph.D. (2002) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is a Research Assistant at Divinity School, Marmara University. He published on various issues in Avicennaâs thought.
Scholars and students, who are interested in medieval Islamic and Christian philosophies, theistic conception of God, discussions concerning divine freedom-necessity and theological language, and academic libraries will pay attention to it.