1. Nature from the Top Down -- 2. From God to Everything Else -- 3. Creation as Doubly Universal Production -- 4. Creation's Modalities -- 5. Could the Created World have Existed for Ever? -- 6. The Origin of Species -- 7. Intellects -- 8. Metaphysical Hybrids -- 9. The Soul's Anatomy -- 10. Souls before Birth and at Death -- App. I. A Chronology of Aquinas's Life and Works -- App. II. A Table Indicating the Correspondence between Sections of Chapters of SCG II in the Pera (Marietti) Edition and the Anderson Translation -- App. III. In Sent. I.44.1.2: Could God Make a Better Universe?
Summary
Norman Kretzmann expounds and criticises Aquinas' theology of creation, which is natural (or philosophical) in that Aquinas developed it without depending on the data of Scripture
Notes
Sequel to: The Metaphysics of Theism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-449) and indexes
