NMC285H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anthropocentrism, Theodicy, Omnipotence
1 Mar 2018
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Creation and the persistence of evil intertextuality in the quran. Characterizes the quran"s engagement with other texts. Where do humans rank in the created order. Su tradition holds that god said: i was a hidden treasure but i wished to be known. The quran takes for granted that there is something (instead of nothing) but rather concerns itself with the reason for this creation: connection: Is it possible to think of god as dependent on us as we are on him. Cosmogony in the quran: there isn"t a sustained account of the creation of the world or a focused account on the creation of humans. Takes for granted that the audience already knows. The story doesn"t need to be repeated merely alluded to intertextuality. So the quranic account of creation isn"t simply repeating the story its creatively improvising with it as well.
