Divine Action and the Human Mind by Sarah Lane Ritchie
Is the human mind uniquely nonphysical or even spiritual, such that divine intentions can meet physical realities? As scholars in science and religion have spent decades attempting to identify a 'causal joint' between God and the natural world, human consciousness has been often privileged as just such a locus of divine-human interaction. However, this intuitively dualistic move is both out of step with contemporary science and theologically insufficient. By discarding the God-nature model implied by contemporary noninterventionist divine action theories, one is freed up to explore theological and metaphysical alternatives for understanding divine action in the mind. Sarah Lane Ritchie suggests that a theologically robust theistic naturalism offers a more compelling vision of divine action in the mind. By affirming that to be fully natural is to be involved with God's active presence, one may affirm divine action not only in the human mind, but throughout the natural world.-
The Theological Imagination
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The Eucharist and Ecumenism
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Christ the Key
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Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
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The Providence of God
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Why the Cross?
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The Humility of the Eternal Son
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Divinity and Humanity
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God's Presence
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The Just War Revisited
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Christ and Horrors
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Holy Scripture
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Providence, Evil and Salvation
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Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology
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Law and the Rule of God
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Reconsidering John Calvin
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Rethinking Paul
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An Augustinian Christology
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Reading the Bible Theologically
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Theology without Metaphysics
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Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine
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Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?
'This book is an excellent survey of the divine action field, with a polemical edgeI found it very helpful in addressing head-on some issues which I have found faintly disquieting for decades. I recommend this book to anyone with an interest in science and faith.' Peter Haslehurst, Anabaptism Today
Sarah Lane Ritchie is Lecturer in Theology and Science at the University of Edinburgh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108476515 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108476511 |
| Title | Divine Action and the Human Mind |
| Author | Sarah Lane Ritchie |
| Series | Current Issues In Theology |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2019-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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