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Full Idea
Authors from 1274 to 1671 unanimously endorse the Christian doctrine that matter was created by God, before which time there was no material world at all.
Gist of Idea
Scholastic authors agree that matter was created by God, out of nothing
Source
Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 02.5)
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.30
| 273 | Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion [Plato] |
| 148 | If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato] |
| 308 | If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato] |
| 1498 | Everyone agrees that the world had a beginning, but thinkers disagree over whether it will end [Aristotle] |
| 613 | Even if the world is caused by fate, mind and nature are still prior causes [Aristotle] |
| 619 | Something which both moves and is moved is intermediate, so it follows that there must be an unmoved mover [Aristotle] |
| 620 | The first mover is necessary, and because it is necessary it is good [Aristotle] |
| 5977 | Heaven and earth must be created, because they are subject to change [Augustine] |
| 21108 | The universe is precisely 13.72 billion years old [Krauss] |
| 16581 | Scholastic authors agree that matter was created by God, out of nothing [Pasnau] |