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-A...

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