Divine Agency and Divine Action: Bearing with the divine wisdom of the ages : the divine inspiration of scripture
Divine Agency and Divine Action: Bearing with the divine wisdom of the ages : the divine inspiration of scripture

Author: William James Abraham

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages:

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Volume 2: Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Christian faith. Volume II argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition. William J. Abraham argues that one must practice theology in order to analyze properly the concept of divine action. Abraham offers a careful review and evaluation of the particularities of divine action as they appear in the work of biblical, patristic, medieval, and Reformation-era theologians. Particular attention is given to the divine inspiration of scripture, creation, incarnation, transubstantiation in the Eucharist, predestination, and divine concurrence. The work does not simply repeat the doctrinal formulations found in the Christian tradition, but examines them in order to find fresh ways of thinking about these issues for our own time, especially with respect to the contemporary debates about divine agency and divine action. -- {u2021}c From publisher's description.

Divine Agency and Divine Action
Divine Agency and Divine Action

Author: William James Abraham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0198786514

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This volume argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II

Author: William J. Abraham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-10-27

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0192517767

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Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Christian faith. Volume II argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition. William J. Abraham argues that one must practice theology in order to analyze properly the concept of divine action. Abraham offers a careful review and evaluation of the particularities of divine action as they appear in the work of biblical, patristic, medieval, and Reformation-era theologians. Particular attention is given to the divine inspiration of scripture, creation, incarnation, transubstantiation in the Eucharist, predestination, and divine concurrence. The work does not simply repeat the doctrinal formulations found in the Christian tradition, but examines them in order to find fresh ways of thinking about these issues for our own time, especially with respect to the contemporary debates about divine agency and divine action.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume III
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume III

Author: William J. Abraham

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0198786522

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Volume 4: In the final of four volumes, the author seeks an account of God as agent. Systematic theology raises deep metaphysical questions about the central concepts we use in our thinking about God. Abraham illumines the concept of God as agent by attending to various traditional problems in Christina doctrine like the relation of freedom and grace, divine action in liberation theology, the presence of God in the Eucharist, divine providence, the relationship of Chrisitanity and Islam, the relation of the natural science to theology and apparent design, and the realm of the demonic. Divine action is the point of departure for reflection on these topics.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I

Author: William J. Abraham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0191090069

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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.

Divine Agency and Divine Action
Divine Agency and Divine Action

Author: William James Abraham

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780191828799

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Argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition

On the Nature of Divine Agency
On the Nature of Divine Agency

Author: Stephen Davies

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781104249960

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume IV
Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume IV

Author: William J. Abraham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0192653989

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In the final of four volumes, William J. Abraham seeks an account of God as an agent. Systematic theology raises deep metaphysical questions about the central concepts we use in our thinking about God. If God is an agent, the question of how to articulate this conviction arises. Abraham illumines the concept of God as agent by attending to various traditional problems in Christian doctrine like the relation of freedom and grace, divine action in liberation theology, the presence of God in the Eucharist, divine providence, the relationship of Christianity and Islam, the relation of the natural sciences to theology and apparent design, and the realm of the demonic. Divine action is the point of departure for reflection on these topics. It not only clarifies the concept of God as an agent but also solutions to these traditional problems.