Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ganssle, Gregory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses aspects of God's causal activity. It explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to Hume. It also addresses contemporary issues related to God's causal activity, including the possibility of special acts of God, proposals of models of divine causation, and analyses of divine conservation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000530735
• Artikelnr.: 63030207

Autorenporträt

Gregory E. Ganssle is Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology - Biola University. He works in the philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy. He has edited two books and written three. His most recent is Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspiration.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Gregory E. Ganssle
1. Divine Causal Agency in Classical Greek Philosophy
Donald J. Zeyl
2. Divine Causality according to Neo-Platonism
Phillip S. Cary
3. Aquinas on Divine Causality
W. Matthews Grant
4. Three Competing Views of God's Causation of Creaturely Actions: Aquinas,
Scotus and Olivi
Gloria Frost
5. Durand and Suarez on Divine Causation
Jacob Tuttle
6. Descartes on Voluntary Action and Universal Conservation
Joel Archer and C. P. Ragland
7. Leibniz on Divine Causation: Continuous Creation and Concurrence Without
Occasionalism
Julia Jorati
8. Berkeley on Divine Human Agency: A Teleological Reconstrual
James S. Spiegel
9. What Hume didn't Notice about Divine Causation
Timothy Yenter
10. Defending Special Divine Acts
Robert A. Larmer
11. Divine Sustaining Causes and the Mind-Body Problem
Angus J. L. Menuge
12. Neo-Aristotelian Accounts of Divine Creation
Paul M. Gould
13. Theistic Conferralism: Consolidating Divine sustenance and Trope Theory
Robert K. Garcia
14. The Timing of Divine Conservation: Pushes, Nudges, and Merry-go-rounds
David Vander Laan
15. Divine Causation and the Pairing Problem
Gregory E. Ganssle