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- Title
THE DIVINE SPIRIT AS CAUSAL AND PERSONAL.
- Authors
Oord, Thomas Jay
- Abstract
Theists in general and Christians in particular have good grounds for affirming divine action in relation to twenty-first-century science. Although humans cannot perceive with their five senses the causation--both divine and creaturely--at work in our world, they have reasons to believe God acts as an efficient, but never sufficient, cause in creation. The essential kenosis option I offer overcomes liabilities in other kenosis proposals, while accounting for a God who acts personally, consistently, persuasively, and yet in diversely efficacious ways. We can reasonably infer that the love, beauty, and truth expressed in creation derive from divine and creaturely causation.
- Subjects
HUMAN behavior; THEISM; EVOLUTIONARY theories; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION &; science
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2013, Vol 48, Issue 2, p466
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/zygo.12003