Empirically Testable Causal Mechanism for Divine Action

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ID22136902
AuthorsArlyn Culwick (corresponding author), Ryan L Faber (0000-0003-2929-2695, corresponding author), Ryan Faber
Year2021
Volume6
Issue4
Pages247-282
Publication date2021-01-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStellenbosch Theological Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2413-9459 • E-ISSN: 2413-9467
PublisherChristian Literature Fund (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17570/stj.2020.v6n4.a10
OpenAlexW4234407085
LanguageEN
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A form of special divine action often considered central to the everyday experience of Christianity is that of a personal interaction with God. For example, in The Second Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics, Andrew Pinsent characterises this interaction in terms of mutually empathic relations that serve to “infuse” virtues and other attributes into a person. Such interaction requires that causal relations exist between a necessary being and the contingent universe. This paper addresses a central problem of special divine action: that the empirically identifiable causes of physical events are modally ill-suited for (and epistemically distinct from) the action of an eternal, non-composite, necessary being. Accounts of what brings about physical events are standardly empirical accounts, grounded upon experience of the world

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