Overall and Aquinas on Miracles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9688908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | DAVID K KOVACS (Fordham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 151-160 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217315001031 |
| OpenAlex | W2605926018 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Christine Overall has argued that miracles, if they exist, would be an evil committed by God and therefore disprove the existence of God. However, her notion of a miracle as an intervention presupposes a view about the relation between God and creation that posits God as an ‘outsider.’ Such a view has not been held by all theists. It was not held by Thomas Aquinas. I show that Aquinas’s conception is not susceptible to Overall’s criticisms. The upshot is that theists should avoid any view of God as an ‘outsider,’ if they wish to avoid Overall’s criticisms
Epistemology · Literature · Miracle · Problem of Evil · Relation (database) · Theism · Theology · Wish · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |