Divine Action Determinism And The Laws Of Nature

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Divine Action, Determinism, and the Laws of Nature

Author : Jeffrey Koperski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042964275X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Divine Action, Determinism, and the Laws of Nature written by Jeffrey Koperski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longstanding question at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology is how God might act, or not, when governing the universe. Many believe that determinism would prevent God from acting at all, since to do so would require violating the laws of nature. However, when a robust view of these laws is coupled with the kind of determinism now used in dynamics, a new model of divine action emerges. This book presents a new approach to divine action beyond the current focus on quantum mechanics and esoteric gaps in the causal order. It bases this approach on two general points. First, that there are laws of nature is not merely a metaphor. Second, laws and physical determinism are now understood in mathematically precise ways that have important implications for metaphysics. The explication of these two claims shows not only that nonviolationist divine action is possible, but there is considerably more freedom available for God to act than current models allow. By bringing a philosophical perspective to an issue often dominated by theologians and scientists, this text redresses an imbalance in the discussion around divine action. It will, therefore, be of keen interest to scholars of Philosophy and Religion, the Philosophy of Science, and Theology.

Divine Action and Modern Science

Author : Nicholas Saunders
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524162
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Divine Action and Modern Science written by Nicholas Saunders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical critique of current attempts to reconcile natural sciences with the concept of divine action.

Providence and Science in a World of Contingency

Author : Ignacio Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000437418
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Providence and Science in a World of Contingency written by Ignacio Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providence and Science in a World of Contingency offers a novel assessment of the contemporary debate over divine providential action and the natural sciences, suggesting a re-consideration of Thomas Aquinas’ metaphysical doctrine of providence coupled with his account of natural contingency. By looking at the history of debates over providence and nature, the volume provides a set of criteria to evaluate providential divine action models, challenging the underlying, theologically contentious assumptions of current discussions on divine providential action. Such assumptions include that God needs causally open spaces in the created world in order to act in it providentially, and the unfitting conclusion that, if this is the case, then God is assumed to act as another cause among causes. In response to these shortcomings, the book presents a comprehensive account of Aquinas’ metaphysics of natural causation, contingency, and their relation to divine providence. It offers a fresh and bold metaphysical narrative, based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, which appreciates the relation between divine providence and natural contingency.

Philosophy, Science and Divine Action

Author : Fount LeRon Shults
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004177876
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Science and Divine Action written by Fount LeRon Shults and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important and controversial themes in the contemporary dialogue among scientists and Christian theologians is the issue of "divine action" in the world. This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars on this topic, which emerged out of the Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action project, co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and Natural Science. This multi-year collaboration involved over 50 authors meeting at five international conferences. The essays collected here demonstrate the pervasive role of philosophy in this dialogue.

God's Providence and Randomness in Nature

Author : Robert John Russell
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599475685
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book God's Providence and Randomness in Nature written by Robert John Russell and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2014, a group of mathematicians, physicists, ecologists, philosophers, and theologians gathered at a special conference in Berkeley, California to present the results of a two-year research program dubbed “Project SATURN”. This program explored many of the rich avenues of thought found at the intersection of modern science and Christian theology. Chief among them is the possibility that certain processes in nature might be so complex that they do not have sufficient physical causes. Known as “ontological indeterminism”, this idea has profound implications for theology. Specifically, it allows God to be thought of as acting providentially within nature without violating the laws and processes of nature. Such a momentous insight could influence how we understand free will, natural evil, suffering in nature, and the relation between divine providence and human evolution. The essays collected here discuss each of these topics and were originally presented at the 2014 conference. Part I establishes the scientific basis for conceptualizing certain process in the universe as inherently random and possibly indeterministic. Part II discusses the philosophical and theological issues that spring from this understanding. Together they represent the cutting edge of thought in the increasingly productive dialogue between science and theology. Short for the “Scientific and Theological Understandings of Randomness in Nature”, Project SATURN was created by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, a Program of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. It was funded with a grant administered by Calvin College and provided by the John Templeton Foundation.

Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence

Author : Kelly James Clark
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030757978
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence written by Kelly James Clark and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or is responsible for everything that happens. However, scientific advances since the 19th century pose serious challenges to traditional views of providence. From Darwinian evolution to quantum mechanics, randomness has become an essential part of the scientific worldview. An interdisciplinary team of Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars—biologists, physicists, philosophers and theologians—addresses questions of randomness and providence.

Unlocking Divine Action

Author : Michael J. Dodds
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813219892
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Unlocking Divine Action written by Michael J. Dodds and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a sustained account of how the thought of Aquinas may be used in conjunction with contemporary science to deepen our understanding of divine action and address such issues as creation, providence, prayer, and miracles.

Quantum Mechanics

Author : Robert J. Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Quantum Mechanics written by Robert J. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum Mechanics, a collection of fifteen essays, explores the creative interaction among quantum physics, philosophy, and theology. This fine collection presents the results of the fifth international research conference co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, Rome, and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley. The overarching goal of these conferences is to support the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences and to investigate the philosophical and theological elements in ongoing theoretical research in the natural sciences. In the first section of this collection, contributors examine scientific and historical context. Section two features essays covering a wide range of philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics. The final set of essays explores the theological implications of quantum theory. Abner Shimony, Raymond Y. Chiao, Michael Berry, Ernan McMullin, William R. Stoeger, S.J., James T. Cushing, Jeremy Butterfield, Michael Redhead, Chris Clarke, John Polkinghorne, Michael Heller, Philip Clayton, Thomas F. Tracy, George F.R. Ellis, and Robert John Russell all contributed essays to this volume.

Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199295514
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction written by Thomas Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate between science and religion is never out of the news: emotions run high, fuelled by polemical bestsellers like iThe God Delusion/i and, at the other end of the spectrum, high-profile campaigns to teach 'Intelligent Design' in schools.Yet there is much more to the debate than the clash of these extremes. As Thomas Dixon shows in this balanced and thought-provoking introduction, a whole range of views, subtle arguments, and fascinating perspectives can be taken on this complex and centuries-old subject. He explores not only thekey philosophical questions that underlie the debate, but also highlights the social, political, and ethical contexts that have made 'science and religion' such a fraught and interesting topic in the modern world. Along the way, he examines landmark historical episodes such as the Galileo affair,Charles Darwin's own religious and scientific odyssey, the Scopes 'Monkey Trial' in Tennessee in 1925, and the Dover Area School Board case of 2005, and includes perspectives from non-Christian religions and examples from across the physical, biological, and social sciences.

Divine Action and the Human Mind

Author : Sarah Lane Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476511
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Divine Action and the Human Mind written by Sarah Lane Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges theological models of divine action that locate God's activity in human mind. Emphasizes God's relationship with all of nature.

The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence

Author : T. Ryan Byerly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567882
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence written by T. Ryan Byerly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How exactly could God achieve infallible foreknowledge of every future event, including the free actions of human persons? How could God exercise careful providence over these same events? Byerly offers a novel response to these important questions by contending that God exercises providence and achieves foreknowledge by ordering the times. The first part of the book defends the importance of the above questions. After characterizing the contemporary freedom-foreknowledge debate, Byerly argues that it has focused too narrowly on a certain argument for theological fatalism, which attempts to show that the existence of infallible divine foreknowledge poses a unique threat to the existence of creaturely libertarian freedom. Byerly contends, however, that bare existence of infallible divine foreknowledge cannot threaten freedom in this way; at most, the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the book, Byerly develops a model for understanding the mechanics whereby infallible foreknowledge is achieved that would not threaten creaturely libertarian freedom. According to the model, God infallibly foreknows every future event because God has placed the times that constitute the history of the world in primitive earlier-than relations to one another. After defending the consistency of this model of the mechanics of divine foreknowledge with creaturely libertarian freedom, the author applies it to divine providence more generally. A novel defense of concurrentism is the result.

Divine Determinism

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Divine Determinism written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper I critically examine the thesis of divine determinism, according to which God determines every event that occurs in the world. Many have argued that this view is entailed by texts considered definitive of traditional theism, or by "perfect being" theology--the view that all God's attributes are "maximally great". However, I contend that the reasons offered in its favor are neither philosophically compelling nor necessitated by any commitments of traditional theism, and that the view has such problematic implications that it ought to be rejected. In Chapter I, I consider four arguments that have been offered for divine determinism, which rely on the following premises: (1) God has attribute X, and (2) If God has attribute X, then divine determinism is true. The divine attributes that I consider are: omniscience, transcendence, creativity, and providential activity. In response to each argument I accept the first premise but reject the second, contending that God's possession of the attribute in question does not entail divine determinism. In Chapter II, I draw a distinction between two forms of divine determinism. According to natural divine determinism (NDD), every event determined by God is also determined by antecedent events in accordance with the laws of nature, whereas according to non-natural divine determinism (NNDD), some events are not. I argue that NDD view leaves no room for direct and novel special divine action in the world after the initial moment of creation. Since the occurrence of such divine action is a central tenet of traditional theism, theists have reason to reject NDD. I also argue for the conditional conclusion that if NDD is incompatible with human freedom, then so is NNDD. Since many theists accept the antecedent of this conditional (and the existence of human freedom), they have reason to reject NNDD as well. In Chapter III I argue that both forms of divine determinism entail that God is morally to blame for the occurrence of human sin--a conclusion clearly at odds with traditional theism. After laying out my arguments, I consider three sorts of responses and contend that none are adequate

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume IV

Author : William J. Abraham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198786530
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume IV written by William J. Abraham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4: In the final of four volumes, the author seeks an account of God as agent. Systematic theology raises deep metaphysical questions about the central concepts we use in our thinking about God. Abraham illumines the concept of God as agent by attending to various traditional problems in Christina doctrine like the relation of freedom and grace, divine action in liberation theology, the presence of God in the Eucharist, divine providence, the relationship of Chrisitanity and Islam, the relation of the natural science to theology and apparent design, and the realm of the demonic. Divine action is the point of departure for reflection on these topics.

The Problem of Divine Action in the World

Author : Joel Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009270311
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Problem of Divine Action in the World written by Joel Archer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's major monotheistic religions share the view that God acts in the world. This Element discusses the nature of divine action, with a specific focus on miracles or 'special' divine acts. Miracles are sometimes considered problematic. Some argue that they are theologically untenable or that they violate the laws of nature. Others claim that even if miracles occur, it is never rational to believe in them based on testimony. Still others maintain that miracles are not within the scope of historical investigation. After addressing these objections, the author examines the function of miracles as 'signs' in the New Testament.

Chance or Providence

Author : Louise Hickman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144387101X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Chance or Providence written by Louise Hickman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief in some sort of providence is widespread, even among those who do not profess any kind of conventional religious faith. The belief that some sort of benevolent divine force directs the events of the universe is one that has shaped our philosophical and theological convictions, together with our economic and social political landscape. The 2013 conference of the Science and Religion Forum was convened to discuss some of the most pressing questions that arise from a consideration of providence: Is a belief in providence compatible with freedom? What of the suffering of non-human creatures? Should providence be thought of as general or as special intervention? How might a belief in providence be squared with the challenges raised by scientific naturalism and the theory of evolution? This book presents chapters that originated from that conference, and explores a variety of responses to these critical questions. Insights from both science and theology are drawn together by some of the leading thinkers in this field. The result is a contribution to the theology of providence which will be of substantial value to all those interested in the conversation between science and religion.

Reframing Providence

Author : Simon Maria Kopf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192882147
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Reframing Providence written by Simon Maria Kopf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. A telling example is the so-called divine action debate, which is largely based on two principles: (i) providence is best conceptualised in terms of divine action; and (ii) divine action is best modelled on human action. By examining this debate, and especially the Divine Action Project (1988-2003), which led to the 'scientific turn' of the debate, this study argues that theo-physical incompatibilism, as a corollary of this 'framing' of providence, can be identified as the main reason for the current deadlock in divine action theories-namely, the assumption that just as human (libertarian) free action presupposes causal indeterminism, so, too, does divine action in the world presuppose causal indeterminism. Instead of recalibrating the much-discussed non-interventionist objective divine action (NIODA) approaches, Simon Maria Kopf advocates a 'reframing' of providence in terms of the virtue of prudence. To this end, this book examines the 'prudential-ordinative' theory of Thomas Aquinas and contrasts it with the prevalent 'actionistic', or action-based, model of providence. In this process, Kopf discusses, among other topics, the doctrine of divine transcendence, primary and secondary causation, natural necessity and contingency, and teleology as essential features of this 'prudential-ordinative' theory. The final part of the book addresses how these two approaches fare when applied to the question of biological evolution, which includes the revisiting of the controversy between Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Conway Morris over what would happen if one were to rerun the tape of life.

Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action

Author : Robert J. Russell
Publisher : Libreria Editrice Vaticana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action written by Robert J. Russell and published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action is a collection of essays assessing the series of the same name, which advances the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences.