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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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