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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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A biotheology of God’s divine action in the present global ecological precipice
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 Theological discourse surrounding the environmental crisis has rightly brought to the forefront human agency as a primary causal determinant. However, this article explores a theistic divine action position toward an account of the present global ...
Lisanne D. Winslow
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NIODA and the Problem of Evil: God as Ultimate Determiner
Religions, 2023 The problem of evil permeates contemporary theodicy, raising the question of how an omnipotent and benevolent God can allow its existence. Exploring this inquiry is inherently tied to investigating divine action, specifically the interplay between time ...
Javier Sánchez-Cañizares
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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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Veritas: Jurnal Teologi dan Pelayanan, 2020 God versus Laplace’s Demon: A Proposal for Trinitarian, Covenantal and Scientific Special Divine Action Concept. In the last decade, the interaction between science and theology in the effort to develop the concept of divine action in the natural ...
David Alinurdin
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A Study and Critique of John Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument based on the Finiteness of Divine Active Attributes and Wisdom [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 Introduction Man’s request for God’s revelation, His visibility, a direct connection to Divine angels or at least, being shown with more experiential evidence by God has been one of man’s historical demands from Divine prophets.
Behroz Asadi +2 more
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Is Theism Incompatible with the Pauline Principle?
Religions, 2022 This paper criticises James Sterba’s use of the Pauline principle to formulate a logical version of the problem of evil. Sterba’s argument contains a crucial premise: If human agents are always prohibited from doing some action, God is also prohibited ...
Matthew Flannagan
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Sebuah Proposal bagi Konsep Tindakan Ilahi di dalam Mukjizat dan Hukum Alam
Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani, 2023 . For a long time, Hume's thesis that miracles are a violation of natural laws has had a great influence on the discussions of miracles and natural laws among philosophers and theologians. This article proposes the concept of miracles as divine acts that
Hendra Winarjo
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The Flexibility of Thomistic Metaphysical Principles: Byzantine Thomists, Personalist Thomists, and Jacques Maritain [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2022 Thomistic metaphysics has been challenged on the grounds that its principles are inconsistent with our experiences of divine action and of our own subjectivity.
Mark K. Spencer
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NATURAL DIVINE CAUSATION, CAUSAL EXCLUSION, AND OVERDETERMINATION: COMMENT ON MIKAEL LEIDENHAG
Zygon, 2021 In his article “The Blurred Line between Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design” and his response “The Problem of Natural Divine Causation and the Benefits of Partial Causation”, Mikael Leidenhag uses Jaegwon Kim's work on causal exclusion to ...
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