Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I - Exploring and Evaluating the Debate

This study lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. It charts the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion, and observes that they were largely committed to this erroneous understanding of divine action as a closed concept.

Table des matières

• 1: Divine Agency and Divine Action: Orientation


• 2: Entering the Whirlwind: Biblical Theology and Divine Action


• 3: Demythologizing Divine Action


• 4: Divine Action and the Challenges of Early Analytic Philosophy


• 5: Reviewing the Terrain: Finding Blood for Ghosts


• 6: Exiting the Court of the Gentiles by Plundering the Athenians


• 7: Saving Divine Action within Later Analytic Philosophy


• 8: Divine Agency and Contemporary Anglo-Irish Neothomism


• 9: The Dissolution of Divine Action and Agency in Process Theology


• 10: Tumbling the Subatomic Dice with Divine Action


• 11: The Turn to Theological Theology


• Bibliography

A propos de l'auteur

William J. Abraham is the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, and an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies (2011).

Résumé

This study lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. It charts the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion, and observes that they were largely committed to this erroneous understanding of divine action as a closed concept.

Texte suppl.

...Abraham's first volume proves an impressive theological effort...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: William J. Abraham, William J. (Albert Cook Outler Professor Abraham, William J. (Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies Abraham, Abraham William J.
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198786504
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878650-4
• Pages: 256
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Christianisme; RELIGION / Theism, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Nature & existence of God, Philosophy of religion, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism