What Efficacious Divine Action Need Not Be: Or How to Split an Atomic Action

Arguments concerning divine conservation and concurrence often assume that actions of certain descriptions would be superfluous if God were to perform them, and it is then concluded that God does not perform such actions. In particular, it often seems that atomic actions cannot be the result of coop...

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Subtitles:"Symposium On Divine Causation"
Main Author: Vander Laan, David A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Evangelical Philosophical Society 2023
In: Philosophia Christi
Year: 2023, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 231-237
RelBib Classification:NBC Doctrine of God
VA Philosophy
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Summary:Arguments concerning divine conservation and concurrence often assume that actions of certain descriptions would be superfluous if God were to perform them, and it is then concluded that God does not perform such actions. In particular, it often seems that atomic actions cannot be the result of cooperative activity between God and creatures since there is no apparent way to divide the labor between the two. However, the actions that are atomic in one model of divine action may not be atomic on another. On fine-grained models there may be unexpected prospects for nonredundant divine action.
ISSN:2640-2580
Contains:Enthalten in: Philosophia Christi
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/pc202325223