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The other side to no creation ex nihilo is no annihilation.

Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality 2008

Nishitani affirms Eckhart's intimations of a Godhead of Absolute Nothingness, even though he notes that this is “markedly distant from orthodox Christian faith,” which limits the concept of nothingness to the relative nothingness expressed in the nihilum of creatio ex nihilo, that is, to the absolute privation of being out of which the highest being creates lesser beings (NKC X, 75; Nishitani 1982, 66; also see NKC VII).

The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

This supports the Catholic dogma that God created the world ex nihilo, that is, out of complete non-existence.

Latest Articles PugioFidei.com 2009

The Black Church includes a constellation of denominations and independent congregations, some of which broke away from other Protestant denominations and some which were founded ex nihilo, as it were.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Phrases of Jesus are updated to contemporary English, moving far from the original Greek where things are not only lost in translation but created ex nihilo.

Lee Jefferson: Legislation of Biblical Proportions: Can We Really Have an 'Academic' Study of the Bible in Public Schools? Lee Jefferson 2011

Phrases of Jesus are updated to contemporary English, moving far from the original Greek where things are not only lost in translation but created ex nihilo.

Lee Jefferson: Legislation of Biblical Proportions: Can We Really Have an 'Academic' Study of the Bible in Public Schools? Lee Jefferson 2011

Creation is the bringing into and sustaining in existence [creatio ex nihilo et creatio continuo].

March 22nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

Of course, creation ex nihilo, the creation of the universe out of nothing, is a major component of virtually all religious belief.

Victor Stenger: Did the Universe Come From Nothing? Victor Stenger 2010

Given the low level of human intelligence on these matters, it is not surprising that we often get messed up. de nihilo nihil fit (Lucretius) — Chameleon

War Czar for Bush to Keep His Job - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

And finally Hendrix, drug-jumpy but soothed with Valium, before a dwindled crowd, snaking onstage to give the worst performance of “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” on record before conjuring ex nihilo — out of some shreds of feedback — the pop-art masterpiece that was his “Star-Spangled Banner”: Francis Scott Key reimagined as a muezzin with his finger in the wall socket.

Woodstock Nation 2009