Matter as an Image of the Good

Ferdinand Ulrich's Metaphysics of Creation

Rachel M Coleman, Adrian J Walker

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English

Cascade Books
03 July 2025

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy of religion

Series: Veritas

The question of matter has been a quiet but enduring question in our desire to know being--and therefore to know ourselves--since we began to ask questions about the nature of being at all. Indeed, in the Timaeus, Plato writes that matter is only graspable ""by some bastard reasoning."" The use of this evocative adjective is not meant simply to indicate that matter is bad or the source of all evil, but rather indicates matter's ""middleness"" not exactly being itself, but also not nonbeing simpliciter. Thus, thinking about matter cannot happen in the usual way. Ferdinand Ulrich is not a usual thinker and this book seeks to illuminate Ulrich's radical way of thinking being and thinking being as gift, which is to say, it seeks to explain Ulrich's metaphysics of creation. It does so in light of Ulrich's understanding of matter, which has a central place in his work, and indeed is for Ulrich the test-case for whether any metaphysics is sufficiently radical.

By: Rachel M Coleman
Foreword by: Adrian J Walker
Imprint: Cascade Books
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 417g
ISBN: 9798385230228
Series: Veritas
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 03 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel M. Coleman is an assistant professor of theology at Assumption University in Worcester, MA.