Kirkpatrick, Frank G., author.
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2014];©2014
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Notes:
- There are two philosophical commitments requisite to Christian belief: that God is the ultimate mystery and that God is present and active in the world. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation and the immanent collapse of God and world, Frank Kirkpatrick argues for a theory of agency and action that preserves the mystery of God while providing a philosophically robust account of divine action in created time and space. Kirkpatrick proposes a way around the stalemates that have stymied thought on divine agency and enters into conversation with significant figures in systematic theology. –Publisher’s website.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-160) and index.
- Otherness and oneness: rival conceptions of God — Establishing the primordiality of the agent, act, and agency — Edward Pols and the metaphysics of agency — The metaphysical conditions for God as agent — How can God act in the world? : divine action and the infrastructure of the socio-temporal-material world — Theology and the discernment of God’s acts in history — Coda on the mystery of God as agent.
- Otherness and oneness: rival conceptions of God — Establishing the primordiality of the agent, act, and agency — Edward Pols and the metaphysics of agency — The metaphysical conditions for God as agent — How can God act in the world? Divine action and the infrastructure of the socio-temporal-material world — Theology and the discernment of God’s acts in history — Coda on the mystery of God as agent.
Subjects:
- Providence and government of God — Christianity.
- Transcendence of God.
- Immanence of God.
- Philosophical theology.
- Religion — Philosophy. fast (OCoLC)fst01093794
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