Creation ex nihilo in the space of philosophical discourse

In the spotlight - The idea of creation ex nihilo, which is a dogmatic thesis of Christianity. The notion of "creaturely nothingness" is analyzed on the basis of a comparison of metaphysical and post-metaphysical discourses. Metaphysical discourse is represented by the doctrine of Sofia Russian philosophers Vl. Soloviev and S. Bulgakov, and a meditation on the nature of the denial of S. L. Frank; post-metaphysical discourse - the concept of differance Jacques Derrida. The goal is to show how the idea of creation ex nihilo provoked new formats of philosophical discourse, and also to trace back the process that occurred in the period of post-metaphysical turn in philosophy: what impact did the critique of classical metaphysics, in particular, the project deconstructivist Jacques Derrida, on ways of thinking about the ideas of creation? It is shown that the difficulty of the Christian understanding of "creation" as a concept that it is, marking the creation of the world, itself does not belong to this world. Creation is a trait that separates Creator and creation. On the one hand, belongs to the Creator, but not co-eternal to Him. On the other hand, means the beginning of creation, its cause, but does not belong to the creation as its result. In this problem the interface point between the divine and the creaturely there is opinionto as the doctrine of mediation between Creator and creature. Using the model of pan-EN-theism in the definition of its basic concept "positive unity", Solovyov connects the tradition of pantheism in the understanding of God and the dogma of the Holy Trinity. As a result, Absolute as Neoplatonists, received his dual nature: Absolute, not involved in the world and Absolute, involved in the world. Soloviev defined the second as "first matter", "soul of the world", Sophia - Wisdom of God , which will be the intermediary between the Creator and creation. In this case, it is the perfect essence of creation already contains in Sofia as a certain ideal base of God. Revealed that inappropriate attitude to Solovyov's notion of "denial" has led to charges of pantheism. It was also revealed that, despite the efforts of Bulgakov through the idea of creation to give sophiology maximum Christian character, he ultimately dissolves the concept of creation in the divine essence. The solution is found in thinking Frank about antinomical the coincidence of the Creator and the creation. As a result, the reinterpretation of the nature of the meta-logic of negation as a positive ontological structure. The result suggested that the heterogeneity created and uncreated aspects of Sofia comes from the impossibility to solve this problem by using the classic metaphysical resource. It is proposed to use post-metaphysical tradition, for example, the understanding of J.Derrida "nothing" as distinguishing beginning. On the one hand, this understanding nothing is the image and likeness of the infinite divine performance of denial, creating the world and giving him the freedom of conceptualization. On the other hand, it underlines that the creature exists due to the denial of God-His nature.

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