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This comprehensive and detailed study of individuation reveals the theological nature of metaphysics. Adrian Pabst argues that ancient and modern conceptions of “being”—or individual substance—fail to account for the ontological relations that bind beings to each other and to God, their source. On the basis of a genealogical account of rival theories of creation and individuation from Plato to...

this argument hopes to derive its logic is that of patristic and medieval Christian Neo-Platonism, a tradition that preserved and expanded the original hellenization of Christianity. The primacy of relation over substance within Platonism is the most fundamental reason why the Neo-Platonic legacy is a constitutive aspect of Christendom in both East and West. The notion that theology can dispense with metaphysics is just as misguided as the notion that metaphysics is not also theological. It is similarly
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