RT Article
T1 God is (Probably) a Cause among Causes: Why the Primary/Secondary Cause Distinction Doesn’t Help in Developing Non-interventionist Accounts of Special Divine Action
JF Theology and science
VO 20
IS 2
SP 247
OP 262
A1 Kittle, Simon
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1801705186
AB Several recent authors have suggested that much of the discussion on divine action is flawed since it presupposes that divine and human agency compete. Such authors advocate a re-appropriation of the Scholastic distinction between primary and secondary causation which, it is suggested, solves many problems in the theology of divine action. This article critiques defences of the primary/secondary cause distinction based on appeals to analogical predication, and argues that, even assuming an adequate account of the primary/secondary cause distinction, the distinction provides no help in the development of non-interventionist accounts of special divine action.
K1 divine concurrence
K1 primary causation
K1 special divine action
K1 Divine Action
DO 10.1080/14746700.2022.2057468