Divine and Human Action : : Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism / / ed. by Thomas V. Morris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Alston, William P.,; Fischer, John Martin,; Flint, Thomas P.,; Freddoso, Alfred J.,; Inwagen, Peter van,; Kretzmann, Norman,; Kvanvig, Jonathan L.,; Mann, William E.,; Mavrodes, George I.,; McCann, Hugh J.,; Morris, Thomas V.,; Quinn, Philip L.,; Stump, Eleonore,; Yandell, Keith E.,; Zagzebski, Linda,
• HerausgeberIn: Morris, Thomas V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part One. Divine Causality and the Natural World --; 1. Divine Conservation and the Persistence of the World --; 2. Divine Conservation, Secondary Causes, and Occasionalism --; 3. Medieval Aristotelianism and the Case against Secondary Causation in Nature --; 4. Individual Essence and the Creation --; Part Two. Providence and Creaturely Action --; 5. Two Accounts of Providence --; 6. God's Freedom, Human Freedom, and God's Responsibility for Sin --; 7. The Place of Chance in a World Sustained by God --; 8. Freedom and Actuality --; Part Three. The Nature of the Divine Agent --; 9. Divine and Human Action --; 10. Being and Goodness --; 11. Divine Necessity and Divine Goodness --; 12. How Does God Know the Things He Knows? --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501746123; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501746123
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Thomas V. Morris.

The past three decades have seen a vigorous upsurge of interest in the philosophy of religion. Nevertheless, a relatively narrow range of topics has dominated the field. This ground-breaking volume, the effort of fifteen leading American philosophers of religion, represents a new movement in Anglo-American philosophical theology; it introduces important topics and fresh approaches to philosophical theology by centering its discussion on the relationship between God and the created universe.