creatio ex nihilo (creatio ex nihilo)

(Language: Latin)

Short Description: creation out of nothing

Long Description: “creation out of nothing”; the doctrine that God Himself is the sufficient cause of the universe, needing nothing else; often set in contrast to emanationist cosmogonies.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger