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The phrase creatio ex nihilo is not a biblical phrase (though it does occur in Maccabees II: vii, 28).

CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968

(Williams is also, of course, alluding to Christian theological investments in creatio ex nihilo as a doctrinal point — but I think his hermeneutics don’t depend on the allusion to a doctrine from which many prominent Jewish thinkers dissent.)

AKMA’s Random Thoughts 2007

To the ancient Indian and Greek thinker the notion of creatio is unthinkable.

CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968

(“creation out of nothing,” hereafter referred to as creatio) and this intention differentiates theists from religious monists or pantheists.

CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968

He also wrote a number of other treatises on particular issues, such as creatio ex nihilo (huduth al-˜alam), the resurrection, the nature of knowledge, logic, and the relationship between existence and essence.

Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

Creation is the bringing into and sustaining in existence [creatio ex nihilo et creatio continuo].

March 22nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

Subsequent attempts at creatio n of the Linyaari, Aari gathered, had been even less successful.

Massage 2010

Three matters in her words merit notice: (1) the mother speaks only to her family members, never the king; (2) the mother remarks in passing that she had nursed her son for three years; (3) God creates out of nothing, which may reflect the philosophical argument creatio ex nihilo, or more likely, with 7: 11, 22 – 23, belief that life comes from the Creator of the world.

Martyred Mother with seven sons (2MACC): Apocrypha. 2009

There is a nice summary of our scholarly understanding of creatio ex nihilo online.

Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3 James F. McGrath 2009

And in a period when the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo had yet to be formulated, this is not too surprising.

The Only True God Chapter 5: Monotheism and Worship in the Book of Revelation James F. McGrath 2009