naa a22 4500 510753205 CHVBK 20180411083112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11841-012-0349-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11841-012-0349-6 Glouberman Mark Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, Canada aut The First Professor of Biblical Philosophy [Elektronische Daten] [Mark Glouberman] The notion of a particular is what makes the Bible (the reference is to the Hebrew Scriptures) an original position in philosophy. (Particulars are self-contained spatio-temporal entities, and hence, though present in the system that is nature, are not essentially parts of it.) The early chapters of Genesis develop a comprehensive (anti-pagan) conceptualization of reality that gives particularity its due. Whether particularity can be secured without a fully extra-natural anchorage (i.e., without God) is a live issue. As the case may be, the philosophy of the Bible is not a footnote, not even a substantial footnote, to Plato. Plato's metaphysical discourse cannot handle the particular. An irreducibly different, ontological, discourse is needed for that. Having conceived the new notion (the act of conception is dramatized in the theophany of Genesis 12), Abraham, the philosopher of the paper's title, ‘called on the name of the Lord' (Genesis 21:33) to the men and women of the world. The particularity of God, I explain, not God's numerical uniqueness, is the essence of monotheism. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 God nationallicence Metaphysics nationallicence Monotheism nationallicence Ontology nationallicence Paganism nationallicence Particular nationallicence Philosophy nationallicence Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/3(2013-09-01), 503-519 0038-1527 52:3<503 2013 52 11841 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0349-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0349-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Glouberman Mark Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/3(2013-09-01), 503-519 0038-1527 52:3<503 2013 52 11841 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer