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6 - Evolution and Creation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

Mariusz Tabaczek
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Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
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Chapter six speaks against the popular image, commonly accepted within the circles of contemporary advocates of theistic evolutionism, of God creating within and through evolutionary processes, thus sharing his creative power with his creatures. The criticism of this idea is followed by a constructive argument that we should classify evolutionary changes and newly emerged species as an integral aspect of divine governance rather than divine creation, which for Aquinas means but one thing or action – i.e., bringing things into existence ex nihilo, and not through transformation of already existing matter.

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Theistic Evolution
A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective
, pp. 178 - 200
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Evolution and Creation
  • Mariusz Tabaczek, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
  • Book: Theistic Evolution
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367028.007
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  • Mariusz Tabaczek, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
  • Book: Theistic Evolution
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367028.007
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  • Evolution and Creation
  • Mariusz Tabaczek, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome
  • Book: Theistic Evolution
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367028.007
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