Title

Absolute Creationism and Divine Conceptualism A Call for Conceptual Clarity

School/Department

Talbot School of Theology

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

The contemporary debate over God and abstract objects is hampered by a lack of conceptual clarity concerning two distinct metaphysical views: absolute creationism and divine conceptualism. This confusion goes back to the fount of the current debate, the article “Absolute Creation” by Thomas Morris and Christopher Menzel, who were not of one mind concerning God’s relation to abstract objects. Confusion has followed in their wake. Going forward, theistic philosophers need to distinguish more clearly between a sort of modified Platonism, according to which abstract objects depend ontologically on God, and a sort of divine psychologism, according to which objects typically thought to be abstract are, in fact, concrete mental entities of some sort.

Keywords

Conceptualism; Creationism

Publication Title

Philosophia Christi

Volume

19

Issue

2

First Page

431

Last Page

438

DOI of Published Version

10.5840/pc201719233

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