Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ganssle, Gregory

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses various aspects of God's causal activity. Traditional theology has long held that God acts in the world and interrupts the normal course of events by performing special acts. Although the tradition is unified in affirming that God does create, conserve, and act, there is much disagreement about the details of divine activity. The chapters in this book fruitfully explore these disagreements about divine causation.

The chapters are divided into two sections. The first explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to Hume. The second section addresses a variety of contemporary issues related to God's causal activity. These chapters include defenses of the possibility of special acts of God, proposals of models of divine causation, and analyses of divine conservation.

Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000530728
• Artikelnr.: 63030185

Autorenporträt

Gregory E. Ganssle is Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology - Biola University. He works in the philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy. He has edited two books and written three. His most recent is Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspiration.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction



Gregory E. Ganssle



1. Divine Causal Agency in Classical Greek Philosophy



Donald J. Zeyl



2. Divine Causality according to Neo-Platonism



Phillip S. Cary



3. Aquinas on Divine Causality



W. Matthews Grant



4. Three Competing Views of God's Causation of Creaturely Actions: Aquinas, Scotus and Olivi



Gloria Frost



5. Durand and Suarez on Divine Causation



Jacob Tuttle



6. Descartes on Voluntary Action and Universal Conservation



Joel Archer and C. P. Ragland



7. Leibniz on Divine Causation: Continuous Creation and Concurrence Without Occasionalism



Julia Jorati



8. Berkeley on Divine Human Agency: A Teleological Reconstrual



James S. Spiegel



9. What Hume didn't Notice about Divine Causation



Timothy Yenter



10. Defending Special Divine Acts



Robert A. Larmer



11. Divine Sustaining Causes and the Mind-Body Problem



Angus J. L. Menuge



12. Neo-Aristotelian Accounts of Divine Creation



Paul M. Gould



13. Theistic Conferralism: Consolidating Divine sustenance and Trope Theory



Robert K. Garcia



14. The Timing of Divine Conservation: Pushes, Nudges, and Merry-go-rounds



David Vander Laan



15. Divine Causation and the Pairing Problem



Gregory E. Ganssle

Rezensionen

"Divine causation and divine agency are crucially important topics in theology and philosophy of religion, and Ganssle's collection provides both excellent discussions of key historical views and some important proposals on contemporary controversies. Highly recommended for both philosophers of religion and theologians." - William Hasker, Huntington University, USA