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Predicting Divine Action. [PDF]

Philosophia (Ramat Gan), 2018
This article sets out a formal procedure for determining the probability that God would do a specified action, using our moral knowledge and understanding God as a perfect being. To motivate developing the procedure I show how natural theology - design arguments, the problems of evil and divine hiddenness, and the treatment of miracles and religious ...
Burling H.
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Polkinghorne on Metaphysics of Divine Action: Presuppositions and Implications [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2020
This article is an effort to evaluate the epistemological and ontological presuppositions of John Polkinghorne's interpretation of the mechanism of God’s special action. Briefly, it can be said that in his view, God forms and models the world's processes
Mahdi Qiasvand, Hossein khatibi
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Does God Intervene in Our Lives? Special Divine Action in Aquinas [PDF]

Religions
Does God intervene in our lives? In this paper, I respond “yes” and work out a Thomistic account of special divine action in human life. I argue that God intensifies His action in moments that are particularly significant for our salvation.
Mirela Oliva
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IS PHYSICS FUNDAMENTAL? ROBERT RUSSELL ON DIVINE ACTION

Zygon, 2010
Robert Russell's theological work has been a helpful stimulus to the task of understanding the meaning of divine action and providence in the age of science.
John F. Haught
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Self-Organizing Systems and Divine Action

Zygon
Self-organizing systems abound in the world. These include interstellar systems, environmental systems on Earth, biological systems including sentience-bearing ones (bodies), and sociocultural systems, which include religious systems. All self-organizing
David H. Nikkel
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Divine Action and Quantum Theory

Zygon, 2000
Recent articles by Nicholas Saunders, Carl Helrich, and Jeffrey Koperski raise important questions about attempts to make use of quantum mechanics in giving an account of particular divine action in the world.
Thomas F. Tracy
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Divine Action and the Natural Sciences

Zygon, 1997
The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and the Vatican Observatory have jointly sponsored a series of conferences exploring the overarching question: How can we conceive a personal God creating and active within the universe described by the ...
Steven D. Crain
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DANCING AROUND THE CAUSAL JOINT: CHALLENGING THE THEOLOGICAL TURN IN DIVINE ACTION THEORIES

Zygon, 2017
Recent years have seen a shift in divine action debates. Turning from noninterventionist, incompatibilist causal joint models, representatives of a “theological turn” in divine action have questioned the metaphysical assumptions of approaches seeking ...
Sarah Lane Ritchie
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Divine Action in the World of Physics: Response to Nicholas Saunders

Zygon, 2000
Nicholas Saunders claims that, in my view, divine action requires and is confined to indeterminacies at the quantum level. I try to make clear that, in speaking of “gaps” in physical causality, I mean that the existence of intentions entails that ...
Keith Ward
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Divine Simplicity and the Theory of Action

TheoLogica
The modal collapse argument states that the traditional doctrine of divine simplicity entails that God necessarily creates whatever he creates and also that all creatures necessarily perform whatever actions they perform. In response to these objections,
Clemente Huneeus
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