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Action, uncertainty, and divine impotence
Analysis, 1990La deliberation suppose une incertitude prealable. Toute action intentionnelle est-elle precedee par une telle incertitude? L'A. estime que cette incertitude antecedente est essentielle a l'action intentionnelle. L'ignorance sous-tend ainsi non seulement notre liberte de decision mais aussi notre capacite a agir.
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2021
Abstract This chapter identifies the realm of the demonic as one area of theological inquiry in the wider topic of divine agency and divine action. It sketches the kinds of actions demons do and the kinds of agents they are. The chapter then looks at the nature of evil as it manifests in persons, and suggests we do not need church ...
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Abstract This chapter identifies the realm of the demonic as one area of theological inquiry in the wider topic of divine agency and divine action. It sketches the kinds of actions demons do and the kinds of agents they are. The chapter then looks at the nature of evil as it manifests in persons, and suggests we do not need church ...
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2021
Abstract This chapter probes the relationship of divine action to historical processes by looking at the creation of the modern state of Israel and its relationship to the Jewish people. The establishment of Israel has been described by many writers as a miracle of God.
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Abstract This chapter probes the relationship of divine action to historical processes by looking at the creation of the modern state of Israel and its relationship to the Jewish people. The establishment of Israel has been described by many writers as a miracle of God.
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Modern Theology
Abstract “Divine action must be strictly ‘coincident’ with uninterrupted finite action”, is the theorem, inspired by reading Austin Farrer, that dominates Rowan Williams’ Christ the Heart of Creation.
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Abstract “Divine action must be strictly ‘coincident’ with uninterrupted finite action”, is the theorem, inspired by reading Austin Farrer, that dominates Rowan Williams’ Christ the Heart of Creation.
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Religious Studies, 1978
In the preface to his book God the Problem, Gordon Kaufman writes ‘Although the notion of God as agent seems presupposed by most contemporary theologians … Austin Farrer has been almost alone in trying to specify carefully and consistently just what this might be understood to mean.’
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In the preface to his book God the Problem, Gordon Kaufman writes ‘Although the notion of God as agent seems presupposed by most contemporary theologians … Austin Farrer has been almost alone in trying to specify carefully and consistently just what this might be understood to mean.’
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Divine Action and Divine Identity in Christianity and Islam
2021Abstract The chapter seeks to answer the question about whether the God Christians worship is the same as that of Islam. It argues that Christians and Muslims believe in the same God and under certain agreed descriptions worship the same God.
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2021
Abstract The world picture disclosed by classical physics, beginning with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton and continuing until the early part of the twentieth century, was increasingly deterministic. The prevailing metaphor was that of a clock: as a clock is wound up and runs in an entirely predictable way which can be known from its initial
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Abstract The world picture disclosed by classical physics, beginning with Kepler, Galileo, and Newton and continuing until the early part of the twentieth century, was increasingly deterministic. The prevailing metaphor was that of a clock: as a clock is wound up and runs in an entirely predictable way which can be known from its initial
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Harvard Theological Review, 1987
The general concern of Austin Farrer's deservedly well-known approach to our discernment of God's activity in the world is to ground it in our knowledge of our own selves as agents, especially as we interact with God as Divine Agent. In his book The Glass of Vision, Farrer develops an account of how this overall approach applies to the concept of ...
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The general concern of Austin Farrer's deservedly well-known approach to our discernment of God's activity in the world is to ground it in our knowledge of our own selves as agents, especially as we interact with God as Divine Agent. In his book The Glass of Vision, Farrer develops an account of how this overall approach applies to the concept of ...
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