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SeeGod's Activity in the World, ed. by Owen Thomas (Chico; Scholar's Press, 1983), esp. ch. 14.
Rupert Sheldrake,A New Science of Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981).
Ibid.. p. 72.
Ibid.. p. 71.
Ibid., pp. 72–4.
Ibid., p. 81.
Ibid., pp. 104–5.
Ibid., pp. 130–1.
Ibid., p. 150.
Karl Rahner, for example, suggests an interpretation along these lines. See Karl RahnerFoundations of Christian Faith (New York; Seabury Press, 1978). Rahner's views, along with those of Avery Dulles and Michael Polanyi, are discussed by Owen Thomas in an unpublished paper, “Second Thoughts on Divine Agency.” Thomas's paper was presented at a conference on divine action held at Louisiana State University in April, 1986.
Some distinction—marked here by speaking of the special activity of God—must be able to distinguish between God's activity as the permanent sustainer of the world from God's selective intervention in human events.
See myMatters of Faith and Matters of Principle: Religous Truth Claims and Their Logic (San Antonio; Trinity University Press, 1981), ch. 2.
Ibid., See myMatters of Faith and Matters of Principle: Religous Truth Claims and Their Logic (San Antonio; Trinity University Press, 1981), ch. 4.
R.B. Braithwaite,An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955).
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Whittaker, J.H. Supernatural acts and supervenient explanations. SOPH 29, 17–32 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02789874
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