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The Divine Action Debate

2023
Abstract Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to the divine action debate and establishes its central category, special divine action (SDA). The chapter begins by examining the historical roots of the debate, a critique of the Biblical Theology Movement, and the initial challenge that sparked the controversy.
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Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I

2017
This book lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. It argues that the concept of divine action is not a closed concept, like knowledge, but an open concept with a variety of context-dependent meanings.
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Divine Agency and Divine Action

2017
The fundamental problems that have arisen over the last half-century in treatments of divine action in the Christian tradition stem from a failure to come to terms with the concept of action. Theologians and philosophers have assumed that we can have a closed conception of agency on a par with the concept of knowledge.
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Demythologizing Divine Action

2017
Theologians of many stripes in the last century reacted negatively to the notion that God acts in history. Some have argued that the concept of divine action is inapposite to the findings of modern science, and others eschewed the language of special divine action on the grounds that it is unworthy of God, among other concerns.
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Divine Holiness and Divine Action

2021
Abstract Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture. But there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. This book defends an account of holiness indebted to Rudolf Otto’s description of the experience of the holy as that of a mysterium tremendum ...
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Divine Action and Human Action

2021
Abstract Throughout his work, Barth is determined to consider human action in relation to divine action, and not in itself. This determination poses three questions. First, can Barth make human action intelligible as the agent’s own action?
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Divine Action and Emergence

2021
As a middle path between classical theism and pantheism, the panentheistic turn in the twentieth century has been described as a “quiet revolution.” Today, in fact, many theologians hold that the world is “in” God (who, at the same time, is more than the world).
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Divine Action in the Eucharist

2021
Abstract Thomas Aquinas has long been the gold standard for theology of divine action in the Eucharist. Yet his account raises a number of difficulties. His position rests on a literal reading of scripture, a network of concomitant miracles that are dubious, and the danger of multiple incarnations, and a metaphysical apparatus that lacks
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