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Tag Archives: double agency
A Self-effacing Gardener: The Unity of God’s Activity in Nature and Grace in the Theology of Austin Farrer
by Jeffrey A. Vogel, Ph.D. Introduction At the end of Faith and Speculation, his last major work, Austin Farrer writes the following: “Our thesis is no more than that the relation of created act to creative Act is inevitably indefinable, … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, cosmology, divine action, divine providence, double agency, evolution, God, human freedom
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Who Hardened Pharoah’s Heart?
Ezekiel 12:1-16 In the Exodus story of the ten plagues, who hardens Pharoah’s heart, God or Pharoah? Verses can be cited to support both, and Bible readers have wondered ever since. Modern readers have noted that we should not expect … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Robert Jenson
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, divine agency, divine causality, divine creation, divine providence, double agency, free will, God
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Does God “respect” our freedom?
One often finds the following proposition asserted: God has created humanity as free beings and has thus bound himself not to interfere with their free decisions and choice. Divine agency and human agency are conceived as mutually exclusive. In one … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh McCann, Philosophical Theology
Tagged creatio ex nihilo, determinism, divine agency, double agency, Hugh McCann, human freedom
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Hugh J. McCann on Divine Agency and Human Freedom
As readers of Eclectic Orthodoxy know, I am fascinated by the topic of divine and creaturely agency. How can human beings be free if God is the transcendent source of the world? So I immediately jumped to the relevant chapter … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophical Theology
Tagged creator, creatures, double agency, Hugh McCann, human freedom, secondary causality
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Mysteriouser and Mysteriouser: Divine Agency and Human Freedom
Because God is the infinite source and ground of all reality, he transcendently causes everything that is and everything that occurs, yet not in a way that conflicts with the scientific apprehension of the world. As Diogenes Allen explains: Divine … Continue reading
Double Agency: Conceiving Divine and Creaturely Causality
We begin, I suggest, by getting clear in our minds the kind of relationship that exists between Creator and creatures: God’s creative activity is not external to the universe, as is our relation to such things as stoves and books. … Continue reading
Posted in Herbert McCabe & Friends, Philosophical Theology
Tagged Austin Farrer, causality, creation, Diogenes Allen, double agency, God, Herbert McCabe, physics, providence, science, universe
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