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3

Journal Article

English

Norman, Keith E.

Ex Nihilo : The Development of the Doctrines of God and Creation in Early Christianity

BYU Studies

Spring 1977

17

3

Provo, UT

Brigham Young University

1977

291-318

This study will attempt to show that the basis of this fundamental departure from the simplicity of faith in a personal God who is our Heavenly Father, and in his son Jesus Christ, is the consequence or corollary of the development of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo; i.e., God alone is uncreated and eternal, while all else-mankind, angels, other living things, and matter itself-was created by God out of nothing, ex nihilo, and is thus of an entirely different order of being from the Creator. [From the text]

http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol17/iss3/4/

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