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The notion of divine intervention assumes that God or gods exist, that they take an active interest in human affairs, and that they choose to intervene in human affairs (for reasons that may or may not be clear).
This article presents several ways of thinking about divine action available to contemporary theologians: God to act as creator in every event as its absolute ontological ground; God to act indirectly through the order of created causes (natural law); God to act indirectly through the actions of free agents; God to act to determine some or all ...
Nov 25, 2011 · This book explores a range of topics addressing the metaphysics and epistemology of divine intervention. Issues covered include whether we can make coherent sense of a miracle, whether God can establish or suspend natural laws, whether and how God can cause mystical revelations and what God can know about the world and his actions in it.
- Michael Scott
- 2012
Mar 13, 2019 · What is meant by “detectable divine intervention” (DDI)? I’ll claim there are ways of understanding DDI that can have it fit into each of the three logical relationships with EC. (1) Does DDI just mean that we can witness miracles?
Nov 5, 2014 · This chapter first considers the arguments against the traditional, interventionist view of divine action. There are five main reasons why divine intervention has come under fire in recent decades: (i) an incompetent god; (ii) a capricious or inconsistent god; (iii) the problem of evil; (iv) the god of the gaps; and (v) conflicts with science.
Sep 2, 2009 · What often fails to be explicitly recognized is that whether we should seek for non-interventionist accounts of divine action, and what constraints we should put on such accounts, largely depend on the view we have of God's purposes in creation.
Oct 10, 2008 · In the course of a defense of deism, Maurice Wiles responds to the testimony of Christians claiming to benefit from divine intervention: “In many cases the nature of such claimed interventions seems trivial when set in the context of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, which no providential action prevented.”“Divine Action: Some Moral Considerations ...
