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Does God Intervene in Our Lives? Special Divine Action in Aquinas
ReligionsDoes 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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The Many Problems of Special Divine Action [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 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. Without special divine action, Scripture does not make sense, and without Scripture, Christianity neither.
B. Göcke
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Theology and Science, 2022 Several recent authors have suggested that much of the discussion on divine action is flawed since it presupposes that divine and human agency compete. Such authors advocate a re-appropriation of the Scholastic distinction between primary and secondary ...
S. Kittle
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Special Divine Action and Natural Science [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 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. I reply to this claim, taking up the challenge to explain what might be meant by a ‘special’ act of God.
T. Tracy
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Hesitations About Special Divine Action: Reflections on Some Scientific, Cultural and Theological Concerns [PDF]
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 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 reaffirming the notion in a refined manner.
A. McGrath
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Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2018 The model of the levels of analysis (MLA) is used to present a form of naturalistic theism where certain statements on special divine action (SDA) in nature are accepted.
P. Bylica
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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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THEISTIC NATURALISM AND “SPECIAL” DIVINE PROVIDENCE
Zygon, 2009 Although naturalistic perspectives are an important component of their accounts of divine action, most participants in the current dialogue between science and theology eschew a purely naturalistic model.
Christopher C Knight
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FALSIFIABILITY AND TRACTION IN THEORIES OF DIVINE ACTION
Zygon, 2010 One of the most focused research programs in the science‐religion dialogue that has taken place up to the present is the series of volumes published jointly by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
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