In the Christian tradition, the phrase “creation out of nothing” (in Latin, creatio ex nihilo) synthesizes and affirms the biblical testimony to the kind of act by which God created everything. God created all that is, the summary phrase announces, out of nothing. This invokes the unchallenged majesty of the Creator God, without whom nothing exists or ever has existed. The phrase also points, then, to the truth that all that exists, the totality of creation, is God’s work and belongs to God.
