Nature’s Teleological Order and God’s Providence : : Are they compatible with chance, free will, and evil? /

Nature’s Teleological Order and God’s Providence : : Are they compatible with chance, free will, and evil? / / Paul Weingartner.

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The book defends that there is both teleological order (design) and chance in non-living and in living systems of nature including man. This is done by giving exact definitions of different types of order and teleological order on the one hand and of different types of chance on the other. For their...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Weingartner, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis , 61
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Whether there can be providence at all?
  • 2. Whether providence can be attributed to God?
  • 3. Whether providence is concerned with creation?
  • 4. Whether there is order in the change of things?
  • 5. Whether there is teleological order in non-living things?
  • 6. Whether there is chance and randomness in non-living things?
  • 7. Whether there is teleological order in living things?
  • 8. Whether there is chance and randomness in living things?
  • 9. Whether providence is compatible with both order and chance?
  • 10. Whether everything that happens comes under God’s providence
  • 11. Whether everything that comes under God’s providence is known by God
  • 12. Whether everything that comes under God’s providence is willed or permitted by God
  • 13. Whether everything that comes under God’s providence is caused by God or by creatures
  • 14. Whether everything that comes under God’s providence is directed to some goal or integrated into a network of goals
  • 15. Whether nature’s order and God’s providence are compatible with free will
  • 16. Whether God’s providence is compatible with evil
  • Bibliography
  • List of definitions
  • List of theorems
  • List of names
  • List of subjects

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