Divine Action and the Human Mind. By Sarah Lane Ritchie
The first section of Sarah Lane Ritchie’s book consists of an extended critique of the ‘standard causal joint model’ of divine action, a model associated with the Divine Action Project of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and the Vatican Observatory. The term ‘causal joint’ was coined...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 991-994 |
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| Summary: | The first section of Sarah Lane Ritchie’s book consists of an extended critique of the ‘standard causal joint model’ of divine action, a model associated with the Divine Action Project of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and the Vatican Observatory. The term ‘causal joint’ was coined by Austin Farrer; it refers to the point at which divine action impinges on the world of our experience. Farrer was sceptical about any attempt to identify this joint, but the causal joint model maintains that, if there is such divine action, there must be some point at which it occurs, and an adequate theory of divine action should attempt to identify it. That point is held, in this standard model, to occur in areas where the known laws of science leave the course of natural events undetermined; thus, God in acting will not ‘violate’ the laws of nature he has established. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa056 |