Many theologians and philosophers claim that creation is the actualizing of a possible world. This book rejects this way of understanding the creation of the world since it seems to violate the notion that God made the world out of nothing.

Introduction; Chapter One: Leibniz's Ontology of Possibility; Chapter Two: The Ontology of Modern Modal Theories; Chapter Three: Alternative Account Concerning Possibilia (An examination of C S Peirce's account of possibility and its development by Charles Hartshorne); Chapter Four: Vagueness and the Indeterminateness of Possibility (An examination of the idea of vagueness in philosophical logic and an account of how it relates to the notion of indeterminate possibility); Chapter Five: Knowledge, Possibility and Ockham's Theory of Divine Ideas; Chapter Six: Divine Capacity (An argument that indeterminate possibility is best understood on the model of capacities to do things); Chapter Seven: Theories of Providence; Chapter Eight: Moral and Providential Consequences of the Notion of Indeterminate Possibility; Chapter Nine: God and Chance (An account of how the notion of chance is introduced by the notion of indeterminate possibility and how it might connect with some accounts of Genesis); Chapter Ten: The Notion of Creativity (An investigation into the concept of creativity and how various models for the creative act are employed by various thinkers); Chapter Eleven: Externalism and the Creation of Meaning (An argument that God in creating the world creates new meanings that did not previously exist); Conclusion.