[article] Creation and Divine Being in the Christian Neoplatonism of William of Auvergne

ABSTRACT: This paper considers William of Auvergne’s understanding of creation and divine being. As William of Auvergne, and especially his doctrine of creation, have been largely overlooked, the present paper outlines the metaphysical foundations for his understanding of creation, his understanding of divine being, how God is the cause of all things, and how all things then, in some sense,…