Defending God’s Strong Conservation
Defenders of the strong view of divine conservation hold that nothing that God creates is capable of sustaining its own existence from one moment to the next without His immediate and continual influence. Assuming a traditional view about efficient causality, I demonstrate that simply in virtue of b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Year: 2003, Volume: 77, Pages: 145-157 |
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| Summary: | Defenders of the strong view of divine conservation hold that nothing that God creates is capable of sustaining its own existence from one moment to the next without His immediate and continual influence. Assuming a traditional view about efficient causality, I demonstrate that simply in virtue of being committed to creation ex nihilo, the theist is thereby committed to this strong view of conservation. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7925 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Catholic Philosophical Association, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpaproc20037728 |