Volume 1, Number 1 (Fall 2003)
A Philosophical Response to Donald Keefe's Creation as Existential Contingency
Roger Duncan
Fairfield University
ABSTRACT
In "Creation as Existential Contingency" Fr. Donald Keefe offers a précis of some of his most important
theological contentions, claims that have renewing potential for metaphysics in our time. Philosophical
objections to his paper might be raised chiefly around his neglect of analogy and consequent disregard
for the subtle dialectic between philosophy and theology. Of a piece with this tendency is his summary
dismissal of cosmological argumentation for the existence of God. Philosophical contributions outweigh
these objections, however, opposing difference and relation to the monotony and cosmic pessimism of
classical monistic visions of ultimate Being, insisting on freedom as a transcendental, and pointing
toward a resolution of the time-eternity dichotomy.
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