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iaajah-6956	Ovie, Valentine Aghoghophia	CREATION AND THE PROBLEM OF NOTHING: UNPACKING THE LOGIC OF CREATIO EX NIHILO	2025	13	.pdf	application/pdf	7286	412	55	In Confessions XII.7, Augustine articulates a hierarchy of being, noting that God is being itself (esse ipsum), whereas created beings occupy varying degrees of participation in being. Therefore, if divine creation is an act of will, and the object of that will is “nothing,” one is faced with the problem of how God can will to create from what is inherently unwilled and unknowable.	cache/iaajah-6956.pdf	txt/iaajah-6956.txt