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Plato submits that the Demiurgos initiates all movement in becoming toward what is best by persuading the Receptacle to take into itself a structure like the Pattern. To create is to persuade a recalcitrant \"material\" to bring perfect being into existence as far as possible. Plato's hypothesis does seem to account for movement in becoming toward what is best, but it does not render sufficiently comprehensible the relation of perfect being to existence. [TRUNCATED]","abstract_html":"The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the views of creation that Plato, Augustine, and Brunner advance to deal with problems involved in God's relation to the world. Divine craftsmanship seems to be the model in Plato's view of creation. 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