RT Article
T1 Il concetto di creazione in Tommaso d’Aquino
JF Annali di studi religiosi
VO 2
SP 239
OP 255
A1 Brugiatelli, Vereno
LA Italian
YR 2001
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1777292271
AB Tommaso  d’Aquino  constructed  his  metaphysics  resorting  to  the  categories  of platonic and neoplatonic thought and above all Aristotelian philosophy. His other sources of inspiration were the Scriptures. From here he acquired the concept of the «creation from nothingness»  to  which  Christian  thinkers  had  contributed.  In  this  concept Tommaso  found  the key to his whole metaphysical system: he erected the pillars of his metaphysics on the basis of the idea of the divine creation of the world. By  means  of  his  creationist  metaphysics  he  elaborated  a  new  theory  of  being  and  of  the relationship between God and man. This allowed him to construct a metaphysical system profoundly different from those of the pagan philosophers.