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- Title
Divine premotion.
- Authors
Oderberg, David
- Abstract
According to divine premotionism, God does not merely create and sustain the universe. He also moves all secondary causes to action as instruments without undermining their intrinsic causal efficacy. I explain and uphold the premotionist theory, which is the theory of St Thomas Aquinas and his most prominent exponents. I defend the premotionist interpretation of Aquinas in some textual detail, with particular reference to Suarez and to a recent paper by Louis Mancha. Critics, including Molinists and Suarezians, raise various objections to the view that premotion is compatible with genuine secondary causation. I rebut a number of these objections, in the course of which I respond to the central challenge that premotionism destroys free will. I also offer a number of positive reasons for embracing the premotionist theory.
- Subjects
FREE will &; determinism -- Religious aspects; THOMAS, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274; OCCASIONALISM; CAUSATION (Philosophy); DIVINITY of Jesus Christ
- Publication
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2016, Vol 79, Issue 3, p207
- ISSN
0020-7047
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11153-015-9536-z