Affirming Our Freedom in God

The Untold Story of Creation

by Robert E. Joyce


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 6/28/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 116
ISBN : 9780759624634

About the Book

Religious thinkers have overlooked an important truth: God’s act of creation is interpersonal and immediately causes only perfect creatures with perfect freedom to respond.

Uniquely integrating and deepening what traditional theists have always believed, the author relates the untold story of freedom in creation. Particular attention is given to the unconscious dimension of the mind and to its roots in the spiritual.

The book highlights the infinite freedom of God and the perfect finite freedom of all persons within the Creator’s activity.

Awakening to God’s gift of two different, but intimately related creations...absolute (out of nothing) and redemptive (out of something)...twenty-first century believers are offered a momentous opportunity for humility and joy. Readers are given a whole new vista for understanding suffering and love.


About the Author

Robert E. Joyce, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. A native of Chicago, he taught at De Paul University and Loyola University, and began full-time teaching at the University of Notre Dame. For thirty-two years, he taught philosophy at St. John's University, where he has been active also in administration and programming.

Dr. Joyce is a former chair of the combined philosophy departments of St. John's and the College of St. Benedict, and once served as Director of the Tri-College Program...an honors program of St. John's, the College of St. Benedict, and St. Cloud State University. He is a member of several philosophical and theological societies, and a past president of the Minnesota Philosophical Society.

His teaching specialties included the philosophy of being and God, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of man and woman. While conducting other courses in philosophy, he developed special programs and courses in personal dynamics and in contemplative prayer. With his wife, Mary, he is the recipient of the Lumen Gentium Award from the Thomas More Institute, Tucson, Arizona, 1970.

Robert Joyce is the author of Human Sexual Ecology (University Press of America, 1981) and, with Mary Rosera Joyce, the co-author of New Dynamics in Sexual Love (St. John's University Press, 1970) and Let Us Be Born (Franciscan Press, 1970). His articles have appeared in various publications, including Cross Currents, The New Scholasticism, Marriage, Desert Call, Listening, and others.