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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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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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The Many Problems of Special Divine Action
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.
Benedikt Paul Göcke
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Sadra's monistic view; another explanation of the compatibility of God's action and nature [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2022 IntroductionContemporary models of "specific divine actions", mostly and regardless of differences, have shaken with three metaphysical commitments, namely "The incompatibility of the divine act and the act of nature", "God's non-intervention" and also "
Nafiseh Nojaba, Mahdi Qiasvand
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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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Review of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's Thought on Perfect Human and Its Correlation with Divine Vicegerency [PDF]
تاریخ فلسفه اسلامی, 2023 The topic of humanity and philosophical anthropology have been indispensable in human history, and a true depiction of man's status in the creation is foremost in theistic religions.
alireza rezwani
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Sebuah Proposal bagi Konsep Tindakan Ilahi di dalam Mukjizat dan Hukum Alam
Dunamis: Jurnal Teologi dan Pendidikan Kristiani, 2023 . For a long time, Hume's thesis that miracles are a violation of natural laws has had a great influence on the discussions of miracles and natural laws among philosophers and theologians. This article proposes the concept of miracles as divine acts that
Hendra Winarjo
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Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology, 2023 The purpose of the present article is to outline a pentecostal model of special divine action by combining the work of Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith and the pentecostal theologian Amos Yong.
Sølve Aksnes
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