Miracles in Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas - Non-Noninterventionist Approaches to Divine Action and the Sciences

This book provides fresh, contemporary accounts of Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas on miracles and science, challenges contemporary noninterventionist presuppositions, and explores rich, untapped avenues in the theology, metaphysics, and epistemology of miracles and laws of science.

List of contents

1. Challenges of the Divine Action Project to Miraculous Action 2. Said Nursi's Theology of Divine Causality and Miracles 3. Nursi on Laws of Science and Miracles 4. St. Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Divine Action and Natural Scientific Causality 5. The Metaphysics of Miracles and Obediential Potency 6. Thomistic Criteria for the Epistemology of Miracles

About the author

Edmund Michael Lazzari is a faculty member of the Consortium for Interreligious Dialogue, Assistant Coordinator of External Programs, and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Catholic Studies at Duquesne University, USA.

Summary

This book provides fresh, contemporary accounts of Said Nursi and Thomas Aquinas on miracles and science, challenges contemporary noninterventionist presuppositions, and explores rich, untapped avenues in the theology, metaphysics, and epistemology of miracles and laws of science.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Michael Lazzari
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032819419
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281941-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Science and Religion Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Islam, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Islam / Sunni, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Christianity, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Religion and science, Religion & science, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy, Islamic groups: Sunni, Alsalaf