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DIVINE PURPOSE AND EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES

Zygon, 2013
When Darwin's theory of natural selection threatened to put Paley's Designer out of a job, one response was to reemploy God as the author of the evolutionary process itself.
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Plantinga on Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2019
In each one of the well-known Abrahamic religions, notably Islam, Christianity and Judaism, there are two important doctrines which seem to be inconsistent, but nonetheless some religious philosophers like Plantinga try to show that there is no conflict ...
عبدالرزاق حسامی فر
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Contingency and Providence: Aristotle and Augustine

Religions
This article examines the transformation of the concepts of contingency and providence from Aristotle to Augustine. For Aristotle, contingency defines the sublunary world: singular future events are neither determined nor already true, as he argues in De
Jorge Luis Gutiérrez
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Hasard et Providence dans l’œuvre de Luigi Santucci

Italies, 2005
Prenant appui sur deux romans de Luigi Santucci (1911-1999), cette étude essaie d’analyser comment un écrivain chrétien contemporain a mis en scène le hasard, selon quelles stratégies et à quelles fins. Il apparaît ainsi que, si le XXe a été qualifié de “
Brigitte Urbani
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Astrological Determinism and the 1270 Paris Condemnation in John Pecham’s Quaestiones disputatae de stellis

Noctua
This article undertakes the first comprehensive analysis of John Pecham’s Quaestiones disputatae de stellis, composed in early January 1271, situating the text within the intellectual and institutional context shaped by the Paris condemnation of 1270 ...
Francesco de Benedittis
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Does God Intervene in Our Lives? Special Divine Action in Aquinas

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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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.
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Wiedza Boga o momencie śmierci człowieka w Epistola ad Bernardum Tomasza z Akwinu a opatrzność w tomizmie analitycznym

Scientia et Fides, 2016
God’s Knowledge about moment of man’s death in Thomas Aquinas Epistola ad Bernardum and providence in analytical thomismThe aim of the article is to present the most important statement in the last – dictated before his death – letter of Thomas Aquinas ...
Michał Zembrzuski
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Formation et phylogénie des concepts de « marché » dans l’économie politique au xviiie siècle

Revue de la Régulation, 2014
How did the economists of the 18th century integrate the word “market” into their treatises? While the market is a matter for ordinary practices until the beginning of the 18th century, it becomes afterward an economic concept in several authors.
Pascal Charbonnat
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Personal Knowledge and Faith of a Scientist

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica
This study intends to probe into the Christian faith of a well-known Hungarian scientist, István Hatvani (1718–1786). It does not claim to look at all of his writings by scrutinizing all of his statements about how science and Christian faith ...
Ábrahám KOVÁCS
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