Is God creator ex nihilo and necessary being?

Abstract

In this paper I propose an argument to show that prima facie God cannot be creator out of absolute nothing (nihil absolutum), if He is a necessary being. Then I offer a strategy for making these attributes of God compatible. By means of this strategy, I argue that a possible worlds-approach can give a good account for what I call ‘theologies of nothingness’, i.e. those theologies that – broadly speaking – identify God with nothingness.