ABSTRACT

Joseph Hannon has expressed a most surprising objection to Aquinas scholar Prof William E. Carroll in his latest paper “Theological Objections to a Metaphysicalist Interpretation of Creation.” The main claim is that Prof. Carroll misunderstands Aquinas' doctrine of creatio ex nihilo by reducing it to a metaphysical notion, rather than considering it in its full theological sense. In this paper I show Hannon's misinterpretation of Carroll's and Thomas Aquinas' thought, particularly by stressing the dependence that the doctrine of providence through secondary causes has on the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo.

中文翻译：

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托马斯·阿奎那（Thomas Aquinas）和威廉·E·卡罗尔（William E. Carroll）创作的《尼克雷罗的creatio》：对约瑟夫·汉农（Joseph Hannon）对创造的形而上学解释的神学反对

摘要

约瑟夫·汉农（Joseph Hannon）在他的最新论文“对形而上学对创造物的解释的神学异议”中，对阿奎那斯学者威廉·E·卡洛尔教授表示了最令人惊讶的异议。主要主张是卡罗尔教授通过将阿奎那的无神创造论简化为一种形而上学的概念，而不是从其完整的神学意义上进行了误解，从而误解了阿奎那的无神创造学。在本文中，我特别展示了汉农对卡洛尔和托马斯·阿奎那思想的误解，特别是强调了由次要原因导致的天意教义对无上的创造教义的依赖。