Engaging Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism: is occasionalism really avoidable?
This article critically evaluates Jeffrey Koperski’s decretalism, which presents the laws of nature as divine decrees functioning as constraints rather than dynamic forces. Building on his work, we explore whether his model successfully avoids the implications of occasionalism, as he claims. By anal...
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2026
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Religious studies
Year: 2026, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 184-196 |
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laws of nature
B Occasionalism B decretalism B Jeffrey Koperski B Causality |
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