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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 a subset of the theologian’s beliefs I will refer to as ‘moral knowledge’: our beliefs about what is right for us to do, and our beliefs ...
Burling H.
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The Divine Action Project, 1988–2003 [PDF]
Theology and Science, 2004 This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley.
Wildman, Wesley J.
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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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Does God Cheat at Dice? Divine Action and Quantum Possibilities
Zygon, 2000 The recent debates concerning divine action in the context of quantum mechanics are examined with particular reference to the work of William Pollard, Robert J. Russell, Thomas Tracy, Nancey Murphy, and Keith Ward.
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Hesitations About Special Divine Action: Reflections on Some Scientific, Cultural and Theological Concerns [PDF]
, 2015 The new interest in special divine action has led to a close reading of the great debates and discussions of the early modern period in an attempt to understand contemporary resistance to the notion of divine action, and to develop strategies for ...
McGrath, Alister E.
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The Many Problems of Special Divine Action [PDF]
, 2015 Special divine action is an integral part of the Christian worldview. In fact, the plausibility of the Christian worldview depends on and is grounded in the putative reality, and therefore possibility, of special divine action.
Göcke, Benedikt Paul
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Chance in a Created World: How to Avoid Common Misunderstandings about Divine Action [PDF]
, 2015 In the article ”Against Physicalism-plus-God: How Creation Accounts for Divine Action in the World’, I defined a framework which allows us to make some progress in our understanding of how God acts in the world.
Jaeger, Lydia
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Divine Action and God’s Immutability: A Historical Case Study On How To Resist Occasionalism [PDF]
, 2015 Today’s debates present ”occasionalism’ as the position that any satisfying account of divine action must avoid. In this paper I discuss how a leading Cartesian author of the end of the seventeenth century, Pierre-Sylvain Régis, attempted to avoid ...
Sangiacomo, Andrea
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, 2015 The paper discusses basic models of divine action and intervention. However, the most part of the article is dedicated to the question whether or not there are theistic reasons to stick to some sort of non-interventionism.
Schärtl, Thomas
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Special Divine Action and Natural Science [PDF]
, 2015 A number of modern theologians have concluded that the rise of natural science makes it necessary to give up the idea that God acts in particular ways to affect the course of events in the world.
Tracy, Thomas
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