Divine Action and God's Immutability
Todays debates present occasionalism as the position that any satisfying account of divine action must avoid. In this paper I discuss how a leading Cartesian author of the end of the seventeenth century, Pierre-Sylvain Régis, attempted to avoid occasionalism. Régiss case is illuminating because...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 115-135 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Regis, Pierre-Sylvain 1632-1707
/ God
/ Plot
/ Miracle
/ Immutability of God
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | Todays debates present occasionalism as the position that any satisfying account of divine action must avoid. In this paper I discuss how a leading Cartesian author of the end of the seventeenth century, Pierre-Sylvain Régis, attempted to avoid occasionalism. Régiss case is illuminating because it stresses both the difficulties connected with the traditional alternatives to occasionalism (so-called concurrentism and mere-conservationism) and also those aspects embedded in the occasionalist position that should be taken into due account. The paper focuses on Régiss own account of secondary causation in order to show how the challenge of avoiding occasionalism can lead to the development of new accounts of divine action. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v7i4.90 |
