The Mystery and Agency of God : Divine Being and Action in the World /

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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 and therefore accessible to creatures. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation on the one hand, and the immanent collapse of Go...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kirkpatrick, Frank G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Philosophical theology.
Religion > Philosophy.
God (Christianity)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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