...Abraham's first volume proves an impressive theological effort...
Will Bankston, Trinity Journal
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. Noted scholar, William J. Abraham argues that the concept of divine action is not a closed concept-like knowledge-but an open concept with a variety of context-dependent meanings. The volume charts the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion, and observes that they were largely committed to this erroneous understanding of divine action as a closed concept. After developing an argument that divine action should be understood as an open, fluid concept, Abraham engages the work of William Alston, Process metaphysics, quantum physics, analytic Thomist philosophy of religion, and the theology of Kathryn Tanner. Abraham argues that divine action as an open concept must be shaped by distinctly theological considerations, and thus all future work on divine action among philosophers of religion must change to accord with this vision. Only deep engagement with the Christian theological tradition will remedy the problems ailing contemporary discourse on divine action.
Les mer
This study lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. It charts the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion, and observes that they were largely committed to this erroneous understanding of divine action as a closed concept.
Les mer
1: Divine Agency and Divine Action: Orientation
2: Entering the Whirlwind: Biblical Theology and Divine Action
3: Demythologizing Divine Action
4: Divine Action and the Challenges of Early Analytic Philosophy
5: Reviewing the Terrain: Finding Blood for Ghosts
6: Exiting the Court of the Gentiles by Plundering the Athenians
7: Saving Divine Action within Later Analytic Philosophy
8: Divine Agency and Contemporary Anglo-Irish Neothomism
9: The Dissolution of Divine Action and Agency in Process Theology
10: Tumbling the Subatomic Dice with Divine Action
11: The Turn to Theological Theology
Bibliography
Les mer
...Abraham's first volume proves an impressive theological effort...
Shows that the problems arising in treatments of divine action in the Christian tradition stem from failure to come to terms with the concept of action in its openness and in its complexity
Argues that the concept of divine action has a variety of context-dependent meanings
Explores the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion
Les mer
William J. Abraham is the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, and an Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of Methodist Studies (2011).
Les mer
Shows that the problems arising in treatments of divine action in the Christian tradition stem from failure to come to terms with the concept of action in its openness and in its complexity
Argues that the concept of divine action has a variety of context-dependent meanings
Explores the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of religion
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780198786504
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
538 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256
Forfatter